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> Does anyone really think that a CEO, whose pay is on average 271 times greater than that of his typical worker, works 271 times harder than his employees, who might actually be doing strenuous physical labor?

I'm not against the general mindset the author is telling, but this garbage thought process needs to stop. This isn't about working harder, but smarter and you can easily provide 271 times more value through decisions that higher ups are tasked with than a bottom level individual contributor.

***Anecdotal***

The top level people at my company are making decisions daily that govern multi-million dollar investments which can be vastly beneficial or detrimental to our profitability. When working on investments that large in size, marginal improvements on decision making provide huge sums of value which somewhat justify the pay.

Now, are these people self made? That's more open to debate but every C*O and SVP has been with the company for at least 10 years and most VPs also have also been here for that long/have an amazing track record. You generally don't get 10+ years of promotions providing nothing.
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"The US seems to get less of everything for its money than its peers."

Exactly my sentiment. However, my take away is there are too many middlemen dealing with middlemen dealing with ... Everyone's gotta get greased with before each blow by the the worker carrying out the physical labor.
What racist slurs?
I don't think he meant compressing 5 lines of "normal code" into a one-liner. He meant, actually removing it. Maybe the logic it provides is not needed anymore, or you could do it somewhere else in a far more readable way (I'm thinking about abstraction levels)
Honest question: Are you mentioning this because you agree with him (that startups require a lot from anyone), or because you want to contrast that not everyone "has as many cards" as that founder?
Human dna is not particularly special except there's so much of it relative to bacteria and also the sequencing method is stochastic.
The choices really are: a) a lot more government, or b) more government
I get pissed off whenever I unsub from an email and get a message saying it may take two weeks for them to honor my request. Like what the hell is going on that it takes two weeks to flip a flag, even across multiple databases? Because they sure as hell won't delete your email address.
The current President is closing down CFPB projects, to protect the free market.
I think it's worth noting that Google's initiative is an open source project, with its roots back in the days of the Theora (ogg, xiph, vorbis) open source codecs, with which av1 shares a common ancestry.

To argue there will be no innovation in this field without patents is similar to saying there could be no innovation in Linux or Apache without restrictive, object code only proprietary licensing.
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We anticipated that and brought thrustworthy hard and software into your future farming equipment.
Why do people keep saying "bad customer support" as a euphemism for wire fraud?
Granted it's hypocritical unless the original commenter applies the same principle to every country that he or she visits — which would be an absurd way to live.
It's nothing new, as a large group of people are raised with the values that believing is better than knowing. It's the core of every religion. As long as we accept religion, we tell people that it's ok to just believe whatever someone says or writes, instead of employing some critical thinking, and demanding facts,
No. America supported colonialism (France), then later suspended the Geneva agreement of 1954. The agreement required elections across both north and south that they knew Ho Chi Minh would win. That beget what is known in Vietnam as the American War. Vietnam struggled for 30 years to be one country. Ho Chi Minh took assistance from the OSS in WW2 and styled the Vietnamese declaration of Independence on the American one. He turned to the Communists when America decided colonial rule was more important than freedom.
YC is a VC firm. Why would they care about anything but ROI?
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A few years ago, the sequencing field was really excited for this platform as an alternative/competitor to Illumina. Unfortunately, the MinION platform has never been able to generate enough high-quality data for most eukaryotic sequencing use cases. The MinION still has it's niche... long read sequencing can resolve problematic regions of the genome, and the minION is the only option for rapid sequencing in the field. For production genome sequencing centers though, Illumina's still the dominant tech. Their HiSeq X platform can put out a human genome right about $1k.
I wonder what future researchers will think about Kyle O'Quinn's twitter feed...
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This!! Coinbase support is so bad.
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I'm not sure if it's more expensive either. The first correct algorithm I can think of, expressed in the programming equivalent of pre-K level English, usually is less buggy and 10X easier to maintain than the advanced-language-feature-filled code that certain engineers love writing. And it takes a fraction of the time to write because it doesn't require much refinement. Is it slower than finely tuned C++? Yes. Does that matter? michael-scott-NO-GOD-NO.gif

It boggles my mind when people who are just building an everyday website decide that querying models from the DB means we need a multi-level class hierarchy that requires a 5 page paper to explain. Or that anything remotely related to math means we need to start overloading operators. Congratulations! Your brain recognizes patterns! Wow, someone should make you the President of all Engineers Everywhere.

The code you're writing now will likely not survive another 2 years, especially if every time there's a bug or even a question like "how does feature X work under condition ABC?", everyone shrugs their shoulders and has to read 1000 lines of horribly nested abstractions.
You seem to have a very distorted view of the world that's almost identical to what the media feeds you. Have you ever visited China and experienced it yourself, or do most of the things you say come from what organizations tell you? Not saying everything in your post was incorrect, but it's a very unrealistic view.
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> you still have to leave after a year to get more than inflation

This hits home. I've been in software development for quite some time (10 years), I've been with 4 employers so far (full time) and pretty much all my significant raises have come as a result of me looking for a better paying position and then leaving. I may have been unlucky (I also did not work for a really large company yet), but I feel like the "career develoment" opportunities within software engineering companies are way under the level they should be.
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Don't forget systematically imprisoning its black population.

1/3 of male African American are locked up in U.S. prisons. Think about that. One third.
Few weeks back, while commuting to work the E and M lines weren't running. There were 3-5 MTAs finest per platform exit, hallways instructing riders "The E and the M lines are not running!" I took another route only to find same amount of MTA agents at the other station. You count the number of stations. The overtime paid that day would have gone a long way paying for a decent electronic information boards that rest of the world seems to have. As a taxpayer, this abuse of tax funds infuriates me.
> giving life and death powers to very fragile software on a massive scale will end in disaster.

I dunno, we already use software to run trains and it works OK. Gone are the days of track circuits and physical protuberances on the track to open the brake tube when a train tries to go where it shouldn't. Modern positive train control uses 802.11-based wireless networks communicating between trains, and as scary as hacked-up WiFi routers sound for life-and-death applications, it has a better safety record than the easier-to-understand previous-generation technologies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...

Complex software systems _can_ be successfully implemented. I might even be inclined to trust them more than cars driven by people that got an hour of sleep last night, or people whose financial incentives line up in such a way as to make driving 60mph on residential streets a smart business decision.
I've stopped flying in the US simply because I can't go through the line without being molested in some way. It's only in the US.

No other security agents in the world require you to take off your shoes, or do anything more than a standard leg pat down (if they do one at all. Most places just make you turn your pockets inside out).

The TSA is absolutely beyond horrible and Americans have just stopped fighting them and accept this as the new normal. You can get past it if you pay the extortion price for pre-flight checks and have them finger print and background check you.
You setup your environment in a cloud environment that gives you GPU access. Details in the course and forums.
>we are techies, if we can program artificial intelligence...

"How do you do, Fellow Kids?"

I don't think a single regular poster here unironically refers to themself as a "techie."
"Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
-Blaise Pascal
Over the years, a lot of governments have outlawed offshore online gambling. They mainly do so by proxy, by making it illegal for banks or credit card providers to transfer money to unapproved gambling operations. In addition, to offer an alternative, most governments allow some kind of gambling to run in the country, but these are regulated and taxed.

I guess there are always ways to circumvent these government regulations and put your money in an online casino in Barbados or whereever but it takes a special kind of person to want to go through the hassle.

In very much the same way, governments could choke the flow of real money in and out of cryptocurrencies if they wanted to. They are probably planning to do so but it hasn't been on the top of their priorities just yet, the crypto bubble being more of an annoying mosquito than a threat to the economic stability. A government crackdown won't mean that crypto currencies will go away but it will be obvious to everyone that they'll forever be RPG play money, and only a small amount of enthusiasts will want to hold them. Prices will adjust accordingly.
GitHub is attempting to standardize a commit message formatting convention for this. Kind of has a certain odor to it.

Can we get cryptographically signed commit integrity into the mainstream instead?
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I’m sure I’m just missing something obvious, but what are the threes? The article has five headings, and it doesn’t look like each is a list of three things.
Maybe I'm just not good enough to notice that I've long been pwned, but unless you are a high-profile target I don't think you need to worry too much.

When I went to China, I made sure to put all the "suspicious" stuff (like a complete Wikipedia dump) on a hidden and encrypted partition of my portable drive and worried that it might be discovered anyway. In the end nobody even looked at it, the English Wikipedia isn't blocked at all, and the Great Firewall is trivial to circumvent with the right VPN subscription.
You make a valid point, but a lot of people spend their spare time studying common skills - basically free training for their current and/or future employers.

At least, I feel that way..
Social Proof [1] in action. I'm always shocked at how much faith people put into anonymous review sites. Really? You're going to believe a bunch of strangers on how good something is, and actually spend money based on this belief? It's a marketer's wet dream. You don't need to actually prove a claim anymore: You only need to spin up enough sock puppets shouting about it, and people will substitute that for proof.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof
It took me a little longer to understand higher order functions in JavaScript than it took me to understand for loops but once I “got it” then using something like array.filter((x)=> x%2===1) seemed cleaner and arguably “simpler” than the alternative but not “dumber.”
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Yes, and you continue to mischaracterize them (in the opposite fashion that the ACLU does). While they don't completely negate the 4th amendment in this zone, they absolutely do negate it for stops at fixed checkpoints. The fourth amendment prohibits not just unreasonable searches (which Almeida-Sanchez addressed) but also seizures. The SCOTUS majority in Martinez-Fuerte basically says that because these seizures are helpful for CBP purposes, that they're reasonable, even without the normal requirements for individual, particularized suspicion: "Accordingly, we hold that the stops and questioning at issue may be made in the absence of any individualized suspicion at reasonably located checkpoints", where a footnote clarifies that "the choice of checkpoint locations is an administrative decision that must be left largely within the discretion of the Border Patrol". In theory this could be challenged, in practice not.

Brennan's dissent, while leaning a bit heavily on dignity concerns for my tastes squares a lot better with 4th amendment case law prior to that term.

No individualized suspicion needed makes parallel construction and other selective abuses far easier to apply to a large swath of people.
The flowcell is a consumable. You can run it for ~2 days on average. You can wash it out and run other samples during the 2 days if you want, but it will stop working after ~2 days of running.

And in my experience, the washing buffer doesn't do a great job. I read somewhere there is ~10% carryover.
Well, I don't mean to scare you, but, we already have the computing power to run facial recognition on probably on the order of thousands (tens of thousands?) of faces per second on a single desktop GPU. It's also not the case that compute power will just stop improving. It hasn't yet, and this is only the beginning. Several companies (including Google) are working on specialized hardware designed specifically to accelerate neural networks.

We may not be able to shrink fabrication processes much more than they are, but we can probably shrink them enough to get an order of magnitude improvement. Then, we can get one or two orders of magnitude improvement by building hardware designed for the task. Then, we may be able to get yet more improvements by going with creative solution. For example: chips that use analog electronics to implement multipliers with just one to five transistors. Noisy and not very accurate, but still usable for neural networks.

Besides this, Facebook has the compute power, right now, to run facial recognition on every picture being uploaded. Running facial recognition on videos isn't that far-fetched. Even if you think that's too computationally expensive, you could just run the facial recognition at a lower frame rate. There are also tricks that can be used to save computing power. If the system is able to track specific people, it can avoid having to analyze all the data coming in all the time.
Maybe I'm just lucky or something, but I've been with Coinbase for a few months now and I've yet to have any issues with them. The biggest issue I have is that their fees are kinda high to transfer anything, I would love a super slow / low-cost transfer option.
Because you aren't dealing with the competent willing who can pull off such projects. Instead, you are dealing with crooks who take their cut and pass the irresponsibility to the next. Taxpayer money is the true lottery.
Correcting a mistake that went viral
Looks like a field ripe for AI to introduce random auto-correct induced typos into paragraphs where a change of word order could be perceived as poetic.
> The first correct algorithm I can think of, expressed in the programming equivalent of pre-K level English

If I can think of it, then I hope it already exists and I can just reuse it. The tricky stuff that needs a lot of thought is the same stuff that you can't just reuse off the shelf.

> It boggles my mind when people who are just building an everyday website

If it is something so routine that it doesn't need to really be designed, then I guess you can do it right the first time from memory (shame you just can't reuse some functionality if it is so routine though).

> The code you're writing now will likely not survive another 2 years

I work in research where your code is lucky to survive 2 months. I don't disagree with you, but you can't crank out perfectly simple code on the first go if the design space is clear. Those abstractions usually don't exist because the programmer was trying to be clever, they often exist because the programmer was trying to solve the problem. Its only with hindsight that we can often see a better more simple way (and hopefully have time to go back and do the simpler way).
The amount of boilerplate and number of different technologies you need to tie together to have a polished, presentable project with possibility for end-user traction is insane.

You're going to want two different mobile apps (or a cross-platform solution). You're going to need a whole bunch of widget and formatting libraries.

You're going to want a bunch of tie ins with authentication providers.

You're going to want some form of social media integration.

You're going to want a back-end served on a cloud.

If you're pushing it you'll still want a website. Which of course comes with it's own myriad of CSS and JS frameworks.

Compare this to the simpler days of the where all you needed was a mostly static HTML page with some PHP and you could plop it on a server via FTP and viola you were in business.
makes me ashamed to be a kyle!
I think it shouldn't be too hard to cross-reference anonymous accounts on HN and reddit based on writing style, for one thing. Could build a machine that gathers all the data you can find about people online, and e-mails said people that data.
Why not be a better parent and citizen than that, instead if spoiling your children?
Not helped by the leader of the opposition claiming to have ‘won’ the election, despite being unable to form a government. First among the losers hurts, but claiming some sort of moral right to victory is petty.
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The centralized use case (not run by arbitrary nodes) might have some use cases but the decentralized versions run on untrusted nodes which are all the craze are ridiculously uneconomical.

Here is an article estimating Google (one of the most profitable software companies) hardware expenditure at 5 billion a quarter [0], or 20 billion a year. With their 20 billion in profit a year, a doubling of server costs would make one of the most profitable software companies uneconomical.

Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies rely on everyone processing every computation which is insanely cost heavy which is why bitcoin processes a fraction of what visa does but costs the electricity of a small country.

Google's server requirements would obviously be uneconomical with that architecture but can any architecture that relies on untrusted nodes to do the computation be economical when a company such as Google could not run on twice the infrastructure costs?

And thats just one of the downsides with decentralized cryptocurrencies of which there are many.

[0]: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/07/23/from-...
This looks like a really cool tool based on their website -- has anyone here had any experience with it? How does the developer experience compare to, say, Unity?
"In sum, something "fundamental" changes when you want to go fault-tolerant and tolerate node failure in an asynchronous system. When you combine faults and full-asynchrony, you get the FLP impossibility result. That means you lose progress! That is why Paxos does not guarantee making progress under a full asynchronous model with a crash failure."

This is unclear to me. Egalitarian Paxos guarantees progress under a full asynchronous model and doesn't have the dueling leaders problem. So this looks like a weakness of standard Paxos itself, not a fundamental problem.
Allegedly the Dept. of State knows the identity(ies) of S. Nakamoto thanks to a similar technique.
puts "#{rand(19)}, #{rand(19)}"

(I'm not much better :)
The tenor in this discussion so far seems to be a bit on the condescending side. Frankly, I'll pick it up for this guy. What an incredible job – and a great reminder that marketing your service is often times more important than the service itself.

Maybe it's the prankster in me, but I don't feel like this is the end of the world – and it's not an indicator that the world is coming to an end. Fundamentally, people follow the rules and trust structure. That's probably why society can exist.

For the many people who don't have their glasses on, this was a brief glimpse at reality.

I'd recommend watching the Vice video I found in another comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8
There are plenty of offline navigation apps for both iOS and Android that let you do that. In fact, some of the same companies that make dedicated devices, also make those apps.

There's also OsmAnd, which lets you download OSM maps for offline use, complete with elevation contour lines and hillshading, and even Wikipedia articles associated to locations. It does offline navigation, too.
Sure, and I think we can all agree that this type of refactoring is useful, but I have worked with many developers that really take this anti-LoC idea to heart and end up producing difficult to read code because they are so focused on finding the most terse way to express logic.
HK had plenty of freedom of speech and press until very recently. With the bookseller abductions, that is obviously over, but it did exist at one point.
Consistency is the name of the game. Principle of least surprise. Keep flow happening. etc etc.
> 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3 // false

> This is not a problem of JS to be fair. This is floating point math.

This is binary floating point math, which shouldn't be the default in a language like JS. And in any event it's a design flaw for a language to blithely convert 0.2 which is decimal floating point to binary floating point without being asked.