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That makes it "only" the second most profitable Stanford patent ever. If they had only waited a little longer before cashing out...
Not much to be frank, as this is not a HFT related, so basically any linux VPS will do, (I have a few around the world for redundancy)
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> Last year, the UN said the Yemen/Africa crisis was the worst humanitarian crisis since WW2.

Looking that up real quick, it sounds like it's put 20 million people at risk of starvation, which is very bad. But the Great Leap Forward in China had an actual death toll (not just a risk estimate) that was even larger than that, 1958-62.
Haven’t read the entire article yet, but some interesting points on this topic were brought up by evgeny morozov in this talk “come and forget”: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/53642/come-and-forget-with-e...

https://youtu.be/f1yJ8eeI2js

Skip about 28 minutes through for the internet parts. He largely encourages us to open our minds beyond the good vs. evil thoughts on net neutrality and cites earlier efforts of bringing computing in a more intentional way (e.g. France’s minitel)
> It is, rather, to stop them from needlessly and pointlessly killing themselves while at it.

Bringing in morals is a slippery slope. Where do you draw the line then?

Based on the number of times he did this is done before dying, I’d say he’s got say a 1 in 100 chance of death.

Sky divers have to sign forms repeatedly at drop zones that they understand dying is a very real risk and it’s a 1 in 20000 risk of death. For BASE jumping, risks are even higher. Should skydiving be banned too because ”preventable loss of life is tragic”?

What about car racing?

What about rock climbing?

What about <insert one of a hundred other risky “sports”>?
This just made me think of an interesting point. We’re basically running humanity as a whole like a startup. We’re consuming resources like crazy, just running full speed ahead to a future where the loans taken in the present will be offset by some kind of technological revolution - fusion power, weather control, large scale desalination, drone reforestation and ocean cleanup, underground builds, clean energy and space elevators.

People do actually like nature. When technology advances far enough, humans will use it to restore nature again, not necessarily because we feel obligated to, but because it sells houses.
How many people have any one particular disease at any particular point in time?

1% is huge in the given context.

Tell me which disease you consider "not rare"? I'm talking about one that all the people that you count have at the same time. I'm sure you can name a few, there probably are more diabetics (in some countries), but I bet that list won't be long.
Thanks for the tip and edit!
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One answer I've heard is that libertarian policies promote fast economic development. Well-off nations and people don't want to be around pollution and can afford and demand cleaner tech.

Forcing developing nations to adopt the policies of the wealthy creates an understandable tension and incentive for cheating the regs.
Many of the American tech titans of past years are fading (see IBM, Kodak, Xerox).

I wonder how much of this is due to the "cult of the MBA", which focuses on short-term optimization of shareholder benefit, rather than long-term thinking, true innovation, etc.
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You can do all of that with Adyen, however if you run a shop which people only buy from once in a while, e.g. garden sheds, then you would not have value in the token, therefore this is not a common feature.

Adyen works with your shop no matter how PCI compliant and well-built, so you can have it in the checkout or the separate payment page. Interestingly you can also pay by paypal via Adyen.

I have found the online login bit for merchants to be as flaky and naff on Adyen as other payment gateways of yesteryear - forever timing you out and not letting you in, just really bad UX as banks seem to prefer.

I don't see these blockchain based payment systems as fundamentally solving anything in online payments needed for ecommerce, the Adyen tool kit is pretty large and bits such as the 'token' are not needed in real life, or some of the stranger mobile payment solutions that also promise to change the world as much as the crypto-coin 'promises'.
It is not confirmed to be fake in that the hoax perpetrator never admitted to it. But there is no historian who believes it to be true.
The classic joke in the '80s was that a systran project meant to translate Russian into English wasn't too good outside of purely technical work - The proverb 'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak' became 'The vodka is good but the meat has gone bad.'
There's a big difference between running a server that does basically glorified inventory tracking, and running a server that hosts (even just a wrapper around) payment infrastructure.

If my inventory service breaks I might have some pissed-off customers or have to re-ship some items, the odds of getting in bigger trouble than that are low. If my payment infrastructure goes down or gets compromised, the odds of lawsuits or federal/financial-org penalties are way higher.

So sure, you still probably have to have a "server" somewhere (you could probably make a fully static site for a merchant using third-party payment links, javascript, and mailto links or something--think "email as database"--but I suspect this would be neither featureful, secure, nor reliable), but the difference in what you need to maintain/serve is huge.
That is a sexy idea. I feel bad that my second thought was "but likely has no commercial application". Now I wonder when I got old... I'll be writing an audio engine in the next few months; I'll try hacking together something like this then :D.
I suspected this maybe the case. I think there's an important distinction when relating your (and my) experience in the previous era with the current era. That is: expectations are much higher now. In the 80's we watched Matthew Broderick in Wargames having fantastic adventures with a green screen terminal and modem. We played pong, space invaders, and pac man. Today, kids use touch devices to watch videos on youtube and play triple A console games with incredible production quality.

I learned about computers with Murphy's Laws of Dos and Dos 4 on a monochrome screen. I knew that what I was doing was the same thing that professionals did

It's not obvious to kids today that that's what professionals are doing. As an adult I made a simple platformer and showed it to a few nontechnical friends. Their reactions were, 'why can't it do this', or 'are you going to fix the graphics?' ie very un-impressed, and honestly quite dis-spiriting. Imagine a kid creating a simple game today, won't impress her peers, and probably even lead to ridicule and scorn today.
Well, apparently we do have trillions of laws and regulations and companies still can allmost do whatever they want. Because people still buy it as most consumers don't give a shit. Or (imagine) that they can't afford to care.

This is the root problem I believe. Poverty and stupidity. So in my imaginary libertarian world, people are rich and smart enough(because they learned to think and act for themselves) to avoid companies, who do practice things like that. And therefore those companies would go bankrupt.

(oh and for more direct harmful actions like pollution water/air, allmost all Libertarians would agree to direct action against)
In England the sale of goods act specifies that products should be “sufficiently durable”. Personally I feel that dropping a phone from a few feet and having to replace the glass screen fails that test
Machine learning isn't going to be one size fits all
>>> sit down with our kids and teach them how to build Pong with Pygame

Yeah, I absolutely agree with this. We underestimate a childs ability to compute. But are surprised to discover they are native to these interfaces. And can readily grok a VSCode write, build, and debug iteration loop.

I don't think 10 is too young to get them started with Gimp, Inkscape and Blender either. Especially if you have a digital pen and tablet interface for painting.

Although, I believe there is something to be said for visual programming. Modern takes on the old Logo and Turtle graphics paradigms.

Seymour: Live Programming for the Classroom

https://harc.github.io/seymour-live2017/
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It depends on what you mean by "ultrasonically". You can quite easily send and recieve 19 khz tone using ordinary 44.1khz equipment, and virtually nobody is going to hear it.
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A little off-topic but if you want to give silent cinema a go try Abel Gance's Napoleon. It is a 5 hour epic and incredible technical achievement. Some of the tricks in its bag (like the 3 screen finale) haven't ever been attempted since (as far as I know).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6504eRh5h6M
I’m sure H&P is the CLRS of architecture.
I suspect this may have a lot to do with it:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/bitfinex-bitco...
Use this wonderful, underrated browser extension: https://firefox.add0n.com/reader-view.html

edit: Not to be cryptic:

> "Open In Reader View" adds a new context menu item to the page and link context menu to let you open webpages and urls directly in the reader view mode to strip away all of the clutter.

Ignore the domain name, there's versions for Chrome and Opera too!
> even the smallest team and website can greatly benefit from it

I don't think that's true. You have to be at least large enough to justify reasonable investment in microservices.
Could the reflections be used to your advantage, like with MIMO on wifi?
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I work at Spreedly and this is essentially what we do. Store credit cards with us (we're PCI Level 1 Compliant) then decide which payment processor you want to send cards to for transactions. We don't provide automatic routing so you'd need to decide which processor to use on your end but you could easily charge the same card against two different payment gateways if you wanted to.
To be clear, Jubilant Foodworks is the master franchisee for Domino’s in India. They don’t own Domino’s Pizza.
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Companies that caused HEVC patent mess had it coming.

So I understand AV1 is great for streaming content when you have a lot of encoder computing resources.

What about other video codec application areas?

Like real-time peer-to-peer low latency streaming (<50 ms codec latency)? Like for remote desktops, remote gaming, video conferencing, etc. What rules the roost in that department?

More specifically, which codec would have the best image quality for low-latency 400-4000 kbit/s (== ~50-500 kB/s) 720p/1080p streaming for different computing resources (like say for these cases: ARM A53, high-end ARM (like phone flagship models), mobile GPU, modern x86 chip and discrete GPU)? h.265 with B-frames disabled? Or something else?

What can achieve the lowest latency while maintaining low bandwidth requirements? (So not including obvious bandwidth-hogging techniques like streaming jpegs or [codec x] I-frames.)
> Success almost never depends on the tech -- it mostly depends on people.

Of course, that's true. But my understanding is, the technology choice is not about succeeding or failing - a good team with good plans can succeed with just about any tech that can somehow do the job. It's about costs. Complex but featureful tech may drive development costs down, but may also result in significantly higher maintenance costs.
Or how about Turbo C++? It seems there are still technical schools in India that are still teaching using very old (but not sophisticated) tools. It's frustrating too see modern C++ tutorials using 1980/1990s compilers.
I love articles like this because when the world is getting better, at no point is the United States described as getting better. It is always countries other than the United States and rightly so as we are on a decline.
Star Maker is a beautiful book, warmly recommended, available here: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stapledon/olaf/star/
Can you explain this a little more? How do you think cutting bottom 10% performers affected GE as a company?
For 99% of companies, including the ones employees post here container and container orchestration is a resume driven development of devops/engops/sre/seniordevs caused by improper hiring, improper vetting of ideas and personnel and fixation on cargo cults.

It is no different from cargo culting in sales where a perfectly functioning company slowly but surely building up brings in a CRO (can you imagine this showed up as a title?! ) who says "We will sell differently! Give me account managers! Give me sales development representatives! Give me customer happiness coordinators and we will sell to enterprise accounts at 50x contract value!" So the company hires a hundred people in those roles and it does look like the contracts are creeping up. So the CRO says "I know! The issue is that we are spedning too much time on paperwork. Hire me salesops! And give me all these Sales Force integrations! And special IT people reporting to me operating these new tools" So the company hires more people for those roles, burning through millions of dollars in salaries but at the end... the new customers are still just a trickle.

Eventually CRO gets fired and most of the people who got hired on that push are gone as well as millions of dollars are spent. If they spent those millions on Google ads or Facebook ads they would have definitely gotten more revenue but plain Google ads and plain Facebook ads are not sexy.
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370, the exams for that course were just a blast, only exams I've had genuine fun taking in my life. Would have done 470 but I graduated a semester early (that and programming languages courses are ones I retrospectively regret not having taken). Computer Organization and Design 4ed was the one at the time I think - it is Hennessy.

I love computer science now a lot more than I did at the time, heh, but that's part of why I bothered finishing early. The professional environment suits me well.
If you aren't seeking out the loopholes that apply to you, then you are paying more in taxes than you are legally required to.

Complete nonsense. Finding a loophole in the tax code is no different to finding a flaw in some computer code that gives you some access you were never intended to have. Should we all hire professional hackers too?
This may be part of the reason it is in trouble. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/technology/bitfinex-bitco...

Somewhat coincidental that the price start dropping dramatically just as Bitfinex starts getting heavily scrutinised (and maybe stops propping up the price).
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Well, I don't see much solutions to climate change happening now.

Libertarian approach would be simply adopt to the new situation, as I realistically see many people just don't care or believe.

So I would (and do) still try to act as ethical as possible and go all for green technologies, but I doubt it can be forced up on people and do much good in the end, if people are not convinced of it.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Such a simple concept, but seemingly impossible to get people to actually understand why it's so important.
As the other commenters have pointed out, publishing knowledge is not the same as acting as an impartial referee or judge.

In the latter case, his inability to make fair decisions in life is directly relevant to his qualification for a job that involves making fair decisions affecting other people.

Unfortunately I don't think this thought experiment is very relevant.
Yeah except Tesla wasn’t started by Tesla, it just uses his name. Using the name “Tesla” unconnected to the man himself to promote your own business and personal success is totally something Edison would’ve done.
I don’t think anyone mentioned typescript, which is statically typed and therefore can provide a noImplicitThis check in its linter. AFAIK eslint doesn’t provide that option.
From https://aphascience.blog.gov.uk/2016/11/18/colistin-an-antib...

"Colistin is considered a drug of last resort in human medicine" but also "It has been used in Europe for decades to treat intestinal infections in farm animals, although in the UK, it has only more recently been used to treat infections in animals"

The Guardian article paints a picture of developing countries irresposibly using colistin for animals, but I dont think that is the full story here.
For a jr dev, those questions might be a bit more nerve-racking :) Although... an interview in a chamber filling slowly with sand might trump the former.
This is my concern with buying anything like this, or even using languages like Scratch. I learned by using a computer with the languages that exist for production software and web applications. The biggest thing for me is, how do we teach some of these concepts to our kids at a young? What does that kind of curriculum look like?

I found "Teach Your Kids to Code" (https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Kids-Code-Parent-Friendly/...) the other day, and it looks promising, but I'd be interested in other resources as well.

EDIT: I may be wrong about Scratch's usefulness as a teaching tool, it has just been a concern. I'd be glad to hear personal experiences!
I thought this was more of a thought experiment for galactic travel, that would make the most sense. However navigation by star triangulation is much less complicated and historically proven ever since ships were sailed. Star trackers are on many satellites and rovers for positioning.
100%!

The Oculus version is really worth trying for anybody with access.
Curiously, antibiotics were used widely in the USA for weight gain in agricultural animals. It go to the point the sales agents would take them too, and have annual 'weigh-ins' at the sales conventions!

Here's an article about it (if you can fight past the popup ads):

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/14/are...
If it were profitable to do so, I think most people would.
Disclaimer. Never worked has a quant, but studied financial mathematics at university and many of my friends became quants.

Math and coding is really all you need. You don't need much in the way of finical background. Obviously should you know know what words like Options, Futures, Put, Call, Long, Short etc. mean and you should at least know what Black-Scholes is and how to use it, but beyond most places seem to prefer to teach you the nuts and bolts on the job. All of my friends said that the first few month on the job largely consisted of their colleagues laughing at their naive 'academic' understanding of finance.

If you want a textbook Hull's Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives is pretty much the standard. If you can at least understand everything covered in that book you should be good to go on the finance side.
That's a good point. I also spent a lot of time playing King's Quest II, which was simple enough that I could have created something similar (though much less sophisticated) at the same time.

This is perhaps why kids are learning to program later in life than our generation.
Why would the Central Government want to stop excavation because its from the Sangam Era?
My takeaway from the article was less that you should have each one of those roles filled out with a dedicated person, but more that those roles can be fluid and accomplished by many people on the team. Developers and designers can talk to customers. You can experiment with bringing in representatives from customer success, sales, or whatever for the team to work with to analyze business requirements. Developer leads can manage the projects and meetings. There's cases where having a dedicated product manager helps with these, but keeping those roles fluid in the early days can be helpful.
> 70 chars

Still supported by 260-byte filepaths. Asking nevertheless: Why? The path to the network share should be easy to abbreviate.

More philosophically: I'm sorry that you can't use file systems because most support only filenames up to 256 bytes. I'm sorry that you can't use the web because most browsers only support URLs up to 2048 bytes. I'm sorry that you can't use a keyboard because they have only 8-bit scancodes. I'm sorry that you can't use the network because frames can only be so big. I'm sorry that you can't watch a movie because a disc fits only so many bytes.

It's truly a toxic world.
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FPGAs are worth it for anything that's too fast for software and is too niche for an ASIC. In my experience they are very popular for "pro tools" which are too specialized and don't have a large enough volume to justify creating an ASIC and are so expensive that the price of the BoM is not really a concern. For instance I work on products that do a lot of video processing on FPGAs (way too high bandwidth for software, too specialized for an ASIC).

Now if you look at consumer electronics you obviously won't find many FPGAs. Too expensive, too power hungry, too costly and at large scales ASICs are a better match.
The answer seems, then, "No".

These laws and institutions to enforce them do not exist in india, that's the problem

They do in the EU, and this doesn't happen.

Markets are economic systems that separate people into amoral atoms that have no mechanism to turn moral agreement into general behaviour. Even if I agreed something should happen, my isolation from others makes my individual actions a form of charity and an injury to myself.

If one company refrains from pollutants, it is "donating" profits to a moral cause not persuasive to other businesses. Yet if all-at-once agreed, no business is making a loss with respect to another.

I cannot really imagine what place libertarians really want to live in. They seem to think morality is an individual action radically isolable from cooperation with others. It isnt. The attempt to make it one creates markets for murder, rape, etc. as natural concequences of people's moral isolation.