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If you are okay to move to Europe look at Bulgaria permanent residency too.

You will be able to live anywhere in Europe once you get the permanent residence with 500k bond
I made a post on the Iota subreddit which supported the MIT team, removed 30 minutes later. It honestly terrifies me how easy it is to manipulate discourse online - there are many other posts calling the MIT team frauds and the general tone is that Iota were saints defending against corrupt evil cryptography researchers.
Maybe at some hospitals but not mine. I have tried scheduling for example sleep apnea tests at my hospital and I have go through a doctor. I had a second one with in a year and they required me to still see a doctor for some reason. No exceptions. You would think a test like this wouldn't require an initial visit, an actual overnight stay and a follow up reading of the results with the doctor but it does.
If food for poor kid in Netherlands goes from different fund while in US education funding, then funding inUS should be higher to cover that up.

Also, schools in US are not funded equally and sports have special status in society. You have art teachers paying supplies out of pocket in one district and expensive stadium in another district. You have well funded schools and badly funded schools.
Knew I'd find that suggestion.

A slightly better one would be to use a nonspecific handle, because, as you're saying, it shouldn't matter.

If your writing stands out (and if you have the stats you claim, it must), using a gender neutral pseudonym (because you've identified discrimination is what's stopping you from eating well), and having clients pay an LLC could work.

Also, I work a shitty, barely above minimum-wage job at a gas station, and buy and sell old used crap on eBay and Craigslist, while (literally simultaneously, some nights), building my company. Curious to know if there's something comparable you're doing. Always interested in others' hustle.
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Are the lecture notes for the class available anywhere?
I don’t think there any quantum computers yet? The last I heard there was one example of factoring 15 and I think it assumed the factors?

Did something change?
The whole point is to allow for comparison of large plaintext files that are stored by many users. Think of mp3s, or large avi files, or, say, a linux kernel image, or ...

> The server sees if it knows of the existence of records with the same hpFileTrunc value as the client's submission. If so, it returns them to the client.

And by doing this, provides a way for clients to verify if any user on the file storage server has this file. So if I wanted to know if your mozilla thunderbird has a mail I have the source to, I simply try to store this and get these duplicate records.

Most people would consider this extremely unacceptable.

> The client then tries, for each record returned by the server, decrypting ckFile2 with the client's hFile value, potentially producing kFile. If this is successful, the client then decrypts cFile with kFile, producing pFile. Finally, it compares this pFile to the original. If it matches, a match has been found, and the client exits the loop. If not, (or if either of the two decryption steps failed), it continues to the next record the server returned. If there are no more records, the client instead submits the tuple (cFile, ckFile, hpFileTrunc) to the server, which stores it.

Why would the client have the keys to files stored by other users ?

Unless you mean that you can only deduplicate within a single client, in which case that's of much more limited use (and I might add, your encryption scheme is way more complex than it needs to be).
It is a nice coincidence that a video by an educational YouTube channel Kurzgesagt discusses homeopathy and why it still remains popular—hypothesizing that one reason may be that their practicioners pay good attention and affection to their patients. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8HslUzw35mc
This highlights one problem with smart devices. This device truly was smart, but it wasn't smart for you. It was smart for the cruise line, at your expense.
Agreed. De-risking non core competencies is very rational, especially while iterating business strategies.
back when something awful and metafilter were comparatively big, much of the impetus for the paywalls they put on registrations was to structurally prevent the possibility of this sort of thing. worked fine, although those two communities themselves are pretty moribund.

it would all be solved forever and anon with a paywall. 5 mao men, botheads, shilling, you would raise the cost to them by orders of magnitude (stealing other people's credit card numbers cost real money)
Fair points, appreciate the insight. I think living in a tech bubble city clouds my thinking a bit much.

The only real example I have good knowledge of (1 of 1 cases) is a tech friend who worked for a firm acquired by a company wanting to build out data centers, and in the end everyone left after their acquisition stock awards vested, before really adding value to the corporation and delivering on the promise, because the company did not have a "tech r&d" comp plan in place to keep the subject matter experts employed. In the end the project and the DC expansion fell short.
This has been suggested many times and, as far as I can tell, Philips decided the current behaviour is best safety-wise (consider e.g. if your last preset had 1% intensity).
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See e.g. Emil Maurice, he was a Jew

One of his great-grandfathers was Jewish; he was not.
Decent cookbooks have put thought into the binding so this doesn't happen. I'm not sure there's a clear winner here.
I think the advantage of "dumb" devices is that you can fully understand how they work, at least at a level of abstraction that covers all possible functionality you care about. For smart devices, you can't fully understand how all of them work, so you have to trust that they understand correctly what you want them to do and are actually attempting to do it. Or if you can't trust it, you have to spend time and effort verifying it. And you also have to trust (or verify) that they're not doing stupid/malicious things like punching holes in your firewall or leaking your personal data.

In short, you can simply use a dumb device, but you have to manage a smart device, and that requires much more mental bandwidth.
Moving to temp account for this comment.

I have been in US for 15 yrs now. Came here for my masters and still on H-1B today. I’m one layoff away from having to uproot my family and moving back. My girls have only known this as their country.

I earn way above market and have paid plenty in taxes over the years. Because for tax purposes you are considered a permanent resident after 1 yr. Someone brilliant came up with this.

I never complained about my situation because I always have a choice to leave US and it is my decision to stay. Most in my situation feel that we deserve to be bumped up over random lottery and unskilled immigrants. I don’t because I don’t feel this entitlement. Maybe the current generation is unskilled but their future generations could go on to create a lot of value. Some even become President.

Finally this year I’m considering moving out of US. In media it sounds like an awesome place but a glance at the indexes show a different story (education, social security, health care, even freedom). Every time I drop my kids at school I’m worried about them. It all seems not worth it anymore.
LISP is great, but the problem with making programs in it is that one invariably ends up trying to answer the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

(just kidding
(sardonicly?
(isn't it obvious?
(depends on how one writes it
(like with what editor?
(we all know there is only one editor
(emacs?
(Stallman's own
(not to imply ownership
(as editors should be free
(along with all software
(like knowledge
(which are just ideas with proven value
(requiring recognition
(implying awareness of self
(assumed when using LISP)
)))))))))))))))
You wrote: "She says repeatedly that Nazism is not genetic."

I'm asking you to provide evidence for that claim.
I can appreciate that living in tech hot spots can tilt the understanding of certain domains. “Unknown unknowns” if you will.

Most people I know who build datacenters don’t expect a tech R&D budget or outrageous compensation, as it’s general contracting, racking/stacking equipment, and infrastructure engineering (pxe booting, remote consoles, reimaging for OS and/over hypervisor, etc).

Here’s a non-comprehensive list I generated on the fly yesterday of tech orgs who run their own datacenters or equipment in colos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449973
There's two main parts to the stall, which aren't well illustrated by the diagram (I'll get on updating it):

1. Waiting for the resource to exit the command stream (wined3d_resource_wait_idle).

2. Waiting for the CS thread to finish after the map (occurs in wined3d_cs_map).

It's a pipeline stall because the D3D thread has to wait for the CS thread to do things, and thus is unable to dispatch more commands to the CS (and thus the GPU) during this time. I don't consider the actual glMapBufferRange to be part of the stall.

Edit: saw your edit :)
I have this guilty pleasure of occasionally pulling up /r/CryptoCurrency just to find something terrible to laugh at.

(I do think there are cryptocurrencies worth a bet in the long term, if you can afford to take a chance. Better to start with basics like the Princeton course and form your own judgements.)
Friendly reminder that iota's cryptographic weaknesses are immaterial, because it's not actually a decentralized currency - there's the coordinator, a server run by the iota team that controls transactions. The entire value of it today is speculation - if a demonstration of the complete incompetence and dishonesty of the team, exposed by a researchers at a world renowned institution that laymen are familiar with wouldn't make the price drop to zero, what hope is there that the crash will happen before you have to close your short position? And if crypto currencies crash, what is the likelihood that whatever exchange you placed your bet on is still solvent?

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Be content to eat popcorn and wait.
It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.
It needs to be inflation adjusted, and then you have to agree about which inflation measure (there are several, and the differences over 50 years are significant)

But you could sidestep all of that by comparing to other countries, non of which ever had a significant number of “small hospitals run by 1 doctor”; their expenditure as a percentage is mostly consistent through the years and about half as high as the US, with similar trends in education.
There is an opportunity cost to switching too: you don’t know your gain before switching is realized (hence you don’t know over how long to amortize the project), and the switching project could fail altogether. So there is a conservative argument to be made here.
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Certainly do understand the motivation, it just seems like a race environmentalists can't win.

There are better ways to change minds.
In 50 years, will it still fit my sense of style? Will I manage to avoid misplacing it or getting lost for 50 years?

I'm not saying I want a Smart Watch (getting even more distracted? No thanks). What I'm saying is that lasting power in a device isn't just about continuing to function.
Because I’m in the industry I’ve seen software companies run by the legal department or the HR department. But I’ve also witnessed both software and non tech companies where the IT department controls everything. (I know that sounds weird but a company selling on premises software, for instance, should NOT be cowtowing to the IT dept).

In every one of those cases the group in charge has been the wrong group and it really makes you wonder who has been asleep at the wheel so long that this has occurred.

Maybe outsourcing to AWS for a couple of years is a good way to reboot the organization. Cheaper than slowly going out of business. When the fad dies down you start hiring people back who are a little more humble and cheaper than AWS.
Political apathy and racially motivated legislation resulted in the war on drugs.

Don’t want the law enforced? Change the law.
>assumption here is that the military goofed, didn't tell another branch

Perhaps intentionally provocated a response from FAA, USAF, etc as a real-world test of the aircraft's stealth/evasion technology
HDFS does no such thing. If you store a million small files it'll store a million small files on disk as well.
yes, the second paragraph in the paper mentions it

'''
The purpose of the course is to strengthen a student’s understanding of basic physics by learning a new language (Haskell), and instructing the computer to do physics in that language. Our attitude was strongly influenced by the work of Papert[6], and the subsequent work of Sussman and his coworkers[7, 8].
'''

[7] Gerald Jay Sussman & Jack Wisdom (2001): Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. The MIT Press.

[8] Gerald Jay Sussman & Jack Wisdom (2013): Functional Differential Geometry. The MIT Press
A creator of IOTA said that broken collision-resistance is actually a feature, allowing them to use their centralized node to attack "scammers".

The whole narrative from the start has been decentralized cryptocurrencies; but IOTA it seems is neither decentralized nor a currency backed by secure cryptography.
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Two years ago, I had the profound honor of having lunch with Prof Witten. He is also a very kind and generous human being. A small tidbit I learned: He spends a disproportionate amount of time thinking, and very little time on the desk with a pen and a paper. His students told me that he likes to work things out in his head -- which could last for days -- before he would commit things to paper. I thought that was interesting, although not unexpected for a genius at his level. If I am not mistaken, he is the most cited theoretical physicist.

He deserves to be celebrated in popular culture -- like Einstein and Newton. For me, he is the definition of a "living legend".
The USA typically allows about 0.3% per year.

That statistic omits those who enter/overstay illegally.
Soft touch "buttons" vs regular mechanical buttons.

Soft touch buttons are the bane of my existence. With most buttons, there's no feedback as to whether or not the button has been pressed. It's also difficult to develop muscle memory so you can you use the buttons without looking. For this reason I can't stand typing on an iPad's screen keyboard. Also the reason turning on a modern TV involves me dragging my fingers all over the bottom hoping I hit the power button.

The extreme of this is newer Macbook touchbar. Vim is a nightmare to use. Did I even press ESC? Can't tell.

Another great example: http://www.homecrux.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/GE%E2%80%...
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> Hue only has one big defect with regards to this... If there's an electrical outage and the smart bulb is in standby, when power is restored the bulb will turn on. Meaning if power goes out and is restored in the middle of the night the lights could suddenly turn on full brightness

I guess the reason you have to flip the switch twice, is to prevent this problem. Then, if you get an outage during the night, it should continue to be off...
Compare how Germany was treated by the world after WWI, and after WWII. Big difference in treatment, and consequences for that treatment. Fortunately the lessons of WWI hadn't been forgotten when it came time to cleanup after WWII.
Thanks for clarifying, that makes sense.

I'm glad you saw the edit. I initially wrote it based on my first interpretation of what you wrote, but after re-reading I realized that your description was totally accurate, I just misunderstood.

Great work, and thanks for writing it up.
Hah, thanks! I should have been a little bit clearer - not an ELI5-layperson, a layperson who has some vague handwavey idea of how video/film is made and once read a popular article about orange/teal contrast.

It's more stuff like 'what is it about this process that makes a dedicated colour specialist necessary?', 'what are the things things they're supposed to accomplish?', 'what are their technical and creative constraints/inputs/deliverables?', etc.
hahaha, you guys are funny; what a show you're putting on here... Burn the witch!
Yes DSLs for constructing and styling a hypertext document, but as soon as we go beyond the simple document model of the web they are like handing someone a chainsaw and asking them to sculpt a chair that will be comfortable to sit in. Some people can do it with just the chainsaw and a lot of practice. However, in order to get most people to not damage themselves or the people who may someday try to sit in the chair, you have to create a robot to control the chainsaw. What you probably wanted was not a chainsaw attached to a robot, but rather a lathe, a plane, and some chisels, and some other hand tools.
I would trust expert coaches who have tried both approaches.
2017. They could easily fly in students from other states too if they wanted. My experience was in NY.
Fair, but that particular style has apparently already made it 50 years. It's got lasting power at least with a decent sized (or well funded) segment of the market.

It's also an object you can give to children and grandchildren. I have a number of objects like these. I would have zero interest in passing on my 2017 Apple Watch 3 in 20 years.

There's something to be said, IMO, for things that will last generations and not just years.
1. Because these are the best numbers available for crimes of communists. And really, arguing whether communists killed 5 times as many people as nazis, or only 3 times as much might be an important discussion, but not in this context.

2. It should not matter. And really, I just do not want to associate with people who think it should.
True ones are still off in the near future, ones with enough quibits for Shor’s algorithm are far enough away for now as well - which is why I generally feel safe with the current level of cryptography Apple uses with iMessage.

I won’t underestimate the rate at which they are developed though, it takes 2x the key size as the number of quibits to run Shor’s algorithm - ~2600 is a lot smaller than 4096, and even then who knows how much time we have until that happens.
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This is an extremely dangerous way to think - it preys on the natural irrationality of the human mind. Someone is out there laying bait of all kinds. Iota is bait for people who think they barely missed out on bitcoin, but this new thing with buzzword salad as it's description and a lead developer that has clearly lost touch with reality will make then rich.

Then there's the second level bait - since there are all these suckers out there, surely money can be made by predicting them!

And then it's turtles all the way down. You won't know if you're a sucker or at the very top level until it all comes crashing down.
Having seen all kinds of abuse of C macros or python metaprogramming I can't even imagine the mess this could create. Some people just seem to love the idea of creating a undebuggable Frankenstein macro system just so they can save 3 characters of code when writing foo.bar instead of foo["bar"]. Python libraries depending on @ annotations everywhere is another favourite. You save 1 measly line of code by not having to call or register the function somewhere but you loose so much more as you can't control initialization order and your program usually is forced to store it's data as global state.

I do see the powers and benefits this can give but with great power comes great responsibility. It must be truly isolated to places where you absolutely need it instead of just for fun.
Parcel is awesome and works well in production. More often that not, a lot of configuration is not needed. It's nice to be able to just "parcel index.html" instead of 2 hours of configuration :)
Would you please stop? This is a pointless flamewar and now it's going in circles.
John Taylor "Classical Mechanics"
In an early upstart the employees might actually make more money then the founders. When the ship is in motion the founders might not need those people any longer, and there will be many more knocking on the doors wanting a job.
The founders hires the execs to hopefully do a better job then the founders themselves are currently doing. And if the founders are making millions it will also be easy for them to pay the execs millions. And they don't want to hire just anyone to take care of their baby.
Vague memory from a non-physicist: there are some different proposals about new physics (e.g. quantum gravity), which violate that symmetry at high energies, which would predict dispersion of arrival times from far-away gamma-ray bursts or something, which wasn't observed. So string theory did better than those proposals, but didn't predict anything new here, as I understand it.
Why do you think it was ludicurous? Admittedly I don't remember any detailed account of these events - but as I understand it Wright demonstrated that he can construct a message with Satoshi private keys. Most probably he used some trick there, a rigged laptop or maybe even rigged internet connection. But it was quite reasonable proof for me - I would not expect someone to do tricks on me when he could not demonstrate the same thing publicly - because what would be the goal of that? And if you are so sure that you could not be tricked - then good luck.