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I do, but it's important to remember that the saying "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" was not intended as a testament to the quality of IBM's work. It was intended as a testament to the irrelevance of the quality of IBM's work.

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM" because IBM was the safe, established choice. If you bought IBM and the project ended up failing, nobody would blame the failure on your decision, because buying IBM was what you were expected to do. If you bought from some other vendor and the project ended up failing, however, people would rush to claim that the failure was your fault for not doing the safe thing and buying IBM. In other words, you bought IBM to protect yourself from appearing to have taken a risk, not because you expected them to do a particularly good job.

If TFA is accurate, it would appear that "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" is as true today as it ever was. If the Canadian government had hired the Freshbooks guy to build their new payroll system, and the project had failed, the person who had made that decision would have had a whole lot of explaining to do. That person bought IBM, though, so everyone will just shrug their shoulders and assume the fault for the failure lies elsewhere.
Does Apple have the resources for this project in particular? I really don't know. However in the general context, I think you lack understanding of two things:

1. You cannot simply put your standard programmer(or any number of them) with undergrad (even with superb knowledge) of combinatorial algoritms in the former position of someone with a graduate degree that focused on algorithms engineering who didn't give a damn about even the smallest aspects of software engineering like version control or documentation. You have even less ability to do this on an embedded device for numerically sensitive algorithms. I've been in this position (except with a far broader background in mathematics and algorithms engineering) at least a couple times with other engineers with graduate degrees in the requisite areas and (I'm not exaggerating) it is truly a fucking nightmare.

2. Just because you are a VP doesn't mean your managers are willing to approve the amount money that goes into a number of algorithms engineers fixing or rewriting a product that just barely functions well enough. I am incredibly close to a couple people that are VPs at companies with ~10,000 people and you would be surprised with how little power they can have on hiring sometimes. Companies are not bottomless pits of money and the people at the top usually treat it as such.
Then you should find a quote which supports that statement, instead of mischaracterizing one which doesn't.
Or, how to chase a moving target.
The article criticizes the quality of some Indian coders. Expect to be downvoted into oblivion.
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Technically the bracket could be owned by another contract rather than a normal account so in theory at least it's possible.
Gee, too bad. While their datacenter customers take security very seriously, their ordinary consumers probably run lots more unsigned code (JS, etc).
Bitbucket Server (on premesis) does not support mecurial.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confeval/development-tools-...
There are a few reasons you collect a full vial instead of a tiny one:

1. Multiple tests. Most people aren't going to the doctor for a single test. A majority of the testing is Comprehensive Metabolic Panels, which covers 20-30 different things at least. Many patients get a CMP plus other stuff, so enough is drawn for all the tests at once.

2. Possible retesting. There are dozens of things that can go wrong between drawing the blood and sending a result to the doctor. Maybe a tech drops the tube and spills some blood out. Maybe the machine has a problem mid-test and you have to rerun the samples after it's fixed. Maybe the patient has a critically high/low range of something and you need to retest for confirmation. The worst possible scenario for a lab is to have to call the patient back in for more blood, because that causes patient pain and could make the doctor start using a different lab if they're perceived as unreliable. There's actually a legal requirement for labs to store blood for a week after testing, just in case.

3. Different test requirements. The CMPs usually test the serum only (i.e. your blood gets put through a centrifuge), but there are a variety of tests that run on whole blood. Because of the possible re-testing above, and because whole blood test samples need to have anticoagulant added, you'll usually have two separate tubes drawn for whole blood vs. serum tests.
Pride in heritage is still important. Genes don't necessarily define a person's success (genes are regulated in expression, and so expression can be changed by environmental factors) but they do anchor an individual to history. They ground a person in eons of time. Being proud to be black or white or anything else is part of that.
That's great. I implement part 1 in Rust and I'll do the same for the second part
Okay, my bad.
Glad that you two had a good experience growing up, and that in addition to not being bullied for being academically inclined you also didn't get bullied for being a different race. I really hope all children can be so lucky.
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Is there any data on how much the executives of Theranos profited while trying to produce these blood tests?
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Basically each party has signed tx that prove the most recent balance of channel, when they want to close the channel they just broadcast the last signed txs.
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> How is it a retaliation

well, there is plenty of bad blood and a history of conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Saudi_Arabia_relations

this is just one more event to add to the record.
Lightning Network isn't really a satisfying solution in my opinion. It means that Bitcoin will just be a low-capacity settlement layer, and regular purchases will need to use PayPal-like middlemen to avoid hefty fees.

There are a few on-chain scaling solutions. One is Vitalik's approach to sharding. Payments would be split into debits and credits, and a credit transaction would include a Merkle proof showing that a bunch of validators on a different shard approved the corresponding debit. Double spending would be possible if you can corrupt a single shard, but users would be randomly bounced between shards to make that difficult.

Another solution, which I think is very practical, is to make some protocol changes so that scalable full nodes can be run by a cluster of servers. Running a full node would become expensive, but most users would be fine with SPV clients + fraud proofs. See https://ethresear.ch/t/scaling-via-full-node-clusters/1358
> The article was already long enough as-is (I think it ran in the print edition, too). The fact that we know Israel did something similar to Iran's centrifuges is a bit far afield, since they have no apparent beef with Saudi chemical refineries.

From the Iranian perspective, it might be easy for them to group the USA with Israel and Saudi Arabia as quasi-enemies and not have a cared-for distinction. Especially since policies and actions by all 3 countries have been, at best, not aligned with Iranian interests and - at worst - belligerent to Iran. I really would disagree that the Stuxnet incident is irrelevant if Iran is indeed responsible.
That's a very good point. No content = no point.
After reading their evaluation document, I kinda see the use case. I personally find the mix of letters and numbers a little annoying though.

I think it would be better to use only letters for the first 8 symbols (perhaps after getting rid of some particularly confusing ones like "I"), and only numbers for the rest.

This way you don't need the plus, can use all 10 digits without a chance to confuse them with a letter, remove more potential letter-digit mixups such as 6/G or 7/F in some handwritings, and most importantly make the whole thing a lot easier to say (e.g. over the phone), write (on a phone keyboard you would need only one switch between numeric and alpha layouts, you do want this to be easily texted!), and remember (it's easier to remember a sequence of just letters followed by a sequence of just numbers, imo, even if it's one or two characters longer)
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The numbers aren't suspect, the journalist just segued into a second topic without being clear.

The outage happened at the Pyeongtaek plant, which according to Wikipedia has capacity of 450,000 chips per month[1]. Making the maximum estimated damage only 13% of monthly production capacity, not 50%.

The Xi'an plant is a completely different plan, which is beginning an expansion at the end of the month that should add 200k/month of additional capacity at that plant. Nifty fact, but not immediately relevant to the outage that happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
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Great summary.

One common misconception is that LN transactions rely on some amount of trust with 3rd parties, vs. on-chain Bitcoin transactions which do not. This is not the case, payment channels and even multi-hop LN transactions are just as secure as on-chain transactions, modulo one important assumption: that you (or a service you delegate) can monitor the blockchain and broadcast a transaction (which is then confirmed on-chain) refuting a peer that is trying to claim an old (larger) balance, within some time period. This could be an issue if the blockchain is highly congested.

Scalability of routing is another concern. It's suspected that the network topology will end up looking more like hub-and-spoke (not unlike the internet itself) than a mesh, which may have implications for privacy and censorship-resistance.
The footer about Slovakia / France / Germany is a lot more disturbing. Low-rent Indian coding shops being bad isn't news or racist.
It's not hard to outperform the "conventional HTM approach", because it does not work (yet). They tested face recognition performance on 3 very old datasets (AR, ORL, and Yale), and reported accuracy of 83%-86%. To provide some perspective, these datasets have been solved at least a decade ago (> 99% accuracy) [1]

But wait, have they built some cool analog hardware with memristors? Nope, just SPICE simulations...

So yeah, from Kazakhstan, the land of Borat, with love! (sorry, couldn't resist).

[1] http://www.coxlab.org/pdfs/ECCV_PintoDiCarloCox_2008.pdf
How does Lignting Network plan to deal with the fact that each transaction appears to require rerouting?

White paper glosses over this fact.

This seems like a huge rise in exponential complexity.

Because the channel balances change, the best(sometimes only) route change depending on each transaction.

An analogy would be the chaos that would ensue were each TCP/IP packet to require reworking of BGP routing tables.

PS Plus you have to worry about malicious nodes.
> Because I'm rather tired of the silly claims. I write Rust. I write Kotlin. I write C++. I write Ruby. And I also write JavaScript.

I never made any such 'claims', but I'm happy for you. I enjoy those things, too...

> and the mind-meltingly stupid sneering nonsense should just end. Just...end. I used to smarm about it. I was wrong to.

You're the one sneering, smarming, etc. and attempting to create drama. I never said anything about using Node being bad. Maybe you should re-read what I wrote?

> You should stop, because you are wrong now.

Hey, keep believing that if it makes you feel better.
> Does anyone else remember the days when "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" was true? You might pay a little extra, but it was never a total fail to use IBM products.

I never though of it that way but rather as a CYA move.
It's fair to compare them in terms of tx fee/volume, but excluding the different security guarantees is pretty bs.

It's also interesting to note that Nano doesn't incentives miners.
You can run an on-premises instance.
I was born in Canada and I'm definitely proud of it. Not necessarily that I was born here, but that Canada is the way it is and how it has shaped me. I think that is what pride in a nation really is. Americans who are proud to be Americans are this way because they perceive it to be the most free country in the world, and to be a part of that heritage lends something to pride.
You don't need innovation or much risk for clone market strategies (copy a business model from an existing market to a new one). That's what most "innovative" companies in the EU do, and even "artists". It's really disgusting.

They look at SV and copy what works, the societies are still similar enough to extrapolate the demand. Those companies only need a lot of cash to come up with a full featured product right from the start.
http://craftinginterpreters.com/ part 2 (still a work in progress) will show you how to write a VM and compile a language to its bytecode.

It won't be the JVM but it could be a good start
That's neither here nor there, we're discussing China's actions in the context of free trade being the global norm and having established organization like the WTO to ensure a certain level of reciprocity.

The larger point is that China is practicing extreme protectionism while benefitting greatly from free trade.
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Ya this is effectively a non issue.
https://www.roadtovr.com/nvidia-perceptually-based-foveated-...
The primary issues in this space is latency not raw power.
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Sorry you've lost me. How do you differentiate between blockchains if not at least by name? How will a merchant know which currencies to accept if they have no names? When I'm trading Bitcoin for Litecoin, am I just trading the same thing for itself?
Come on, you need a spreadsheet!
If I'm being blunt, its our own fault.

We encourage people to upload and share content they don't own under the guise of "information wants to be free".

We encourage the transformation of employees into contractors and operate in locations where the business is explicitly against the law, because "disrupt all the things".

We work behind the scenes with our competitors to suppress worker wages, fix prices, and avoid taxes, because profit is more important than anything else.

We do ICOs with imaginary money or IPOs with only private shares to get around the SEC and little nuisances like public disclosure.

WTF did we expect to have happen? The government is a slow elephant to SV's sleek mouse, but when we don't run fast enough we're going to be completely flattened. This isn't new behavior on the part of the government - it's not like we can claim ignorance.
Model M keyboard ftw.
Right, you caught me :) what I really meant to say is American English speaker with no strong regional markers (i.e. Southern, New York). Maybe slightly Midwest, but I haven't been back in decades so it's pretty weak.

More importantly, I was distinguishing because while Siri should be able to to understand various accents, it's struggled with that. When it launched, there were only two English variants (US and UK), so if you were a native Indian or Australian English speaker (for example) your experience would suffer. Now, Siri has support for 9 different English variants so they've clearly come a long way, but I remember it wasn't always the case.
What are the real world applications of automaton theory?
Can you go into detail on what OneNote, EverNote, etc are missing?

That said - Workflowy is amazing and changed my life.
> I'm not sure when that changed

Late 1980's. I was there, working for a skunkworks fragment in a Big Blue shoppe. To express doubt about IBM was to get no bonus. Then they started to haemorrhage cash to the tune of 5B$/quarter.

Really it's that Oracle is closer, these days, to what IBM was 30 years ago.
He thought he could get away with it.
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They bought SoftLayer a few years ago and haven't ruined it. Not sure if that really counts or not, but I was really worried. I've been there for quite a few years, and nothing went downhill after they got bought.
Sure no problem, I curl myself :)
Ben Horowitz wrote a decent book about the endless difficulties of start-ups and business in general [1]. It's not so much strictly failure-learn focused (eg learning from the results of a failed start-up), as it is challenge-overcome focused (eg working your way through the never ending beating that is doing a start-up).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0...
I’m both excited that I won’t have to worry about my daughter driving with as many humans on the road, and a bit sad as she already shows quite an affinity for being behind the wheel. Guess dad will have to sign her up for track days.
or are they still emulating banks by requiring permanent online super nodes?

This. The result seems likely to be massive centralized entrenchmemt, unless you believe that most people are going to trust their money to their own dedicated systems. Centralized bitcoin kills its “cyberpunk” dream, and lower tx fees don’t matter to the majority using this as a speculative asset. As a solution to replace money the question of what advantages exist in a centralized version of Bitcoin seems especially probing.

Of course, you’d have to believe that cryptocurrency is more than a quasi-legal distributed, headless Ponzi scheme for any of that to matter. Increasingly it seems clear that when you filter out the pump and dump noise, the only thing investors in crypto really believe is that they’re going to get rich.
From my limited understanding, he broke the law but was able to return all the funds to investors. So there weren't damages per se, but I think statutory penalties instead.
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As an anecdote, my friend's dad was once camping with a friend and lightning hit. His friend died, he did not although he, too, was struck by lightning. Years later he won a $5M home lottery.

I consider him to be the luckiest person I know. He has bad luck and good luck quite often, for no reason.
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Usually this happens because the company has gotten into cash flow trouble. When that happens, the company’s creditors lose faith in its ability to invest capitol in productive ways. But an LBO is usually the option of last resort. If you don’t have cash to make payroll next month and you have 2500 employees, you take the LBO.

An LBO allows the company to raise cash to fund a turnaround; but the incentives of PEs are set up such that the PEs don’t need to actually turn it around to make money — aggressively cutting costs is often enough. The creditors don’t care because they get paid back on IPO and get to collect interest in the meantime.

The alternative is usually going to be a buyout by a competitor, chapter 7 reorganization or simply ceasing operations like Toys-R-Us is doing once their debt rating is so far past junk they can never qualify for an LBO. Then the company dies. This is the “service” PEs provide to the economy — they help wind down failing businesses in a somewhat orderly way while extracting maximum value into the economy from a company that is headed for the scrap heap. You can argue as to whether or not that’s valuable.
The SEC report says about Holmes

> Holmes was paid a salary of approximately $200,000 to $390,000 per year between 2013 and 2015

> Holmes has never sold any of her Theranos stock.

> Due to the company’s liquidation preference, if Theranos is acquired or is otherwise liquidated, Holmes would not profit from her ownership until – assuming redemption of certain warrants – over $750 million is returned to defrauded investors and other preferred shareholders.

So she probably didn't profit that much financially from the fraud (especially not compared to the sums in play), unless Theranos somehow magically comes back from the grave.
"How do you imagine sensors and actuators will be operated instead ?"

I don't have to imagine it - I can just look back to how it was done before the widespread adoption of general purpose computers and their networks.

The systems, and their controls, should be as dumb as possible and should fail in as boring manner possible.
AI researchers are certainly fully aware of such issues, and there have been various models trying to encode long term dependency information, e.g. LSTM.
Couldn't you send a driver out with a USB (or similar) steering wheel? That way an unlicensed driver wouldn't be able to operate the machine.
> they were the Apple of their day

What day was that? Back in the 70's with the Selectric typewriters?

No, seriously, those were fucking fantastic machines!
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Which is why trusted intermediaries like banks will arise. They will be responsible for monitoring the channels, and they'll do a good job of it. The important distinction, however, is that you will still have the option of broadcasting transactions to the main blockchain for a fee. Which means that you still have ultimate sovereignty over your funds.
Those appear to be products - which is different than hiring IBM to develop something for you. IBM has had a storied history in tech from developing/popularizing the PC to OS/2 to their thinkpad laptops, to designing systems for the space shuttle, and natural language projects like the Watson. I don't think IBM lacks talent.

Its almost seems like when you can get away with milking the system, nobody seems to have any moral qualms in selling the government a $200 screwdriver.
+1 for Python (https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli/issues/13)
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Usually it's picked on something or it lost handle which may cause the rock to maybe start turning in the opposite direction. Or they just misread the call and threw the wrong turn.
First off, signed up. This looks like a pretty sweet tool for home automation.

I'm slowly adding home automation to my house, but I'm a little more privacy oriented. I totally recognize I might not be your target audience with some of my constraints.
Couple questions:
If the service is paid (monthly or for a 1 time app purchase); how much is getting published to your servers? Because I like the control over something as intrusive as cameras in my house I'd prefer to self-host as much as I can.

Does it have to be the camera you provide/sell or could a high enough quality camera do that?
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