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Oh, yes, it's quite clear how it works in the short term.

It's just incredibly naive in the longer term, because the alternative for founders of new businesses typically isn't hiring expensive accountants of their own, it's just not bothering at all.

Why should anyone risk their savings and give up the security of a well-paid job (which people in a position to start a viable new business very often already have beforehand) if in return you get all the costs and overheads of running a small business to deal with and then the government is going to impose a very high tax rate on the profits as well?

If they had imposed a sudden 7.5% increase on the general rate of income tax, they'd have been out of power for a generation.
I haven't read much at all about the particulars as far as Telegrams ICO goes. Generally, though, I'd point out that the total sum invested in an ICO doesn't necessarily equal the sum available to the company issuing the coin. Usually, as I understand it, the ICO issuer will hold some of the coins, and sell some of them, and potentially more will be minted in accordance to the issuance schedule of the coin in question.

So in an ICO, the initial sum of tokens might be, e.g. 1,000,000 coins, with the issuer keeping, say, 300,000 coins and selling the rest. If buyers invest USD 1,000,000,000 as in this case, then very theoretically, the issuer now holds USD 300,000,000 worth of the tokens they issued. In practice, to use those funds for operational expenses (or drugs and prostitutes, as the suspicion tends to be), they need to sell the tokens on the open market, and are likely to get much less than the "nominal" value if they sell large amounts.

Again, I have no knowledge of what the particulars of Telegram's ICO are, just pointing out that they probably haven't raised USD 1B in operational funds.
> If it helps read here:

that doesn't support your novel assertion.

> Unfortunately this "nonsense" is the explanation that any economist would give you.

lots of people running around hn espousing their own particular viewpoint as mainstream econ. are you guys working together or is it just a few guys attempting to take advantage on a non-econ crowd?

> Maybe you can be the first one to propose a revolutionary alternative theory, but I haven't read it :)

well you're obviously not very well read if you think commodity money is a revolutionary alternative theory :). I'd suggest starting with introductory econ textbooks and setting your own prejudices aside until you're better informed.
Unstable (aka Sid) rarely lives up to its name, having ran it as my daily driver for a few years. Comparatively, the months I spent on Arch were marred by packaging issues resulting in me switching back to Debian.

I want the maintainer to hold back an update and write patches when there are noteworthy regressions that hurt my workflow. The Debian package maintainers consistently act in my best interest, not that of the developer's or outside political interests. Turns out I find that really useful.
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I was under the impression that `unstable` is... well, not stable (that it breaks). Is it usable for someone who doesn't want to spend much time fixing the system?
I never claimed to be infallible, and I'm happy to explain what I'm doing if someone asks, but ask yourself, how many other skilled highly educated professions are asked to provide such a humiliating measure of unnecessary transparency? (Hint: not most of them). Does your manager give you such transparency into what they're doing day to day? (Generally speaking: nope!) How do I know they're not just spending their afternoon's playing golf? (I don't: but I wouldn't work for them if I didn't think they were mature capable professionals).

Think of it this way, in relationships, business or otherwise, what's sub-communicated is just as important as what's explicitly communicated. Often it's more important. And what's communicated via most agile processes is that programmers are unimportant cogs with no business knowledge that can't be trusted to not stray from important tasks. I think that's ugly.
they will be IR visible, but what do you mean they don't exist? Apollo used them to bleed off excess heat.
It doesn't say how much of that is associated with skin cancer, which is the cancer you're talking about.
I disagree with that study. Myself and a colleague used to go for days on what were called "micro naps". After a certain amount of practice you can train your mind to hit REM within the first few seconds of shutting your eyes for sleep.

Over time it really messes with your head. You become very irritable. Lookup "Peter Tripp, radio DJ". A very famous story with a very sad ending. Long-term sleep deprivation is very bad for you. I know, I've tried it.
The reason is because ammonia has been around a long time, lots of studies of that its effect on biological systems have been done and it naturally occurs in human blood albeit at low concentrations.

Your point about higher turnover of cells aligns with the idea of more cell division and thus higher chance of mutation. However, just because a chemical causes irritation doesn't mean it increases cell turnover.

Also, turnover alone doesn't necessarily drive mutations and scientists don't really know why. Retinol A, rapidly increase skin cell turnover and is used to treat acne, but I've never heard of a mutation risk associated with it.
When I've done R&D in an agile setting, usually the research was done outside of the scrum process, and once that was done then the development would be done in a standard scrum methodology.

The reason you can't really apply "Agile" to research is that having a useful product at the end of each sprint is a central to Agile development but runs contrary to the purpose of research.

Now, you still need to manage your research process. You need to identify the specific research questions you need to answer, and you need to bound the time investment. But let's not try too hard to shoehorn a methodology primarily oriented towards IT consulting into every other domain.
I would say so. I feel like there are very few sites I can't access when on a slow connection. Even for working remote I need almost no speed to get things done.
I should mention that Blyth specifically discusses the recent German election in the above talk. He agrees that yes, the rise of extremists is still limited, but also points out the huge drop in support for traditional parties, which is also worrisome.
Additionally, they are not refugees at all. By international law's definition they stop being refugees when they reach the first safe country, which for most of them is Turkey, or Saudi Arabia, or other Middle East/African country.By the time they decide to go to Europe they are just plain old immigrants, seeking for better life standard, and we should treat them as such.

So far the most reasonable approach to the refugee issue was proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister, who wants EU to help them right there, in the Middle East, instead of letting them in.
Sigmoid is indeed hardly used as layer-to-layer transfer functions.

But I gurantee you > 20% of the world is activating sigmoid functions in ML apps every day.
Just curious: How many service businesses have you owned/managed to reach that conclusion?

Your premise seems to imply that every such business can afford to lose 20% or so off its margins and still remain viable. (Or that the market will bear all such businesses increasing their prices accordingly, but in that case, we have to ask why they have not done so already.)
It might also cost large amounts of fuel when planes would have to take completely nonsensical routes to go around a scatter of tiny, blocked airspace areas everywhere.

Additionally, people might start to "squat" the airspace around airports and along preferrable routes and "rent" them to airlines at an increased price. (Or, if they are a competitor or have other reasons to damage the airline, simply block it and don't rent it at all)
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What is the policy on rewriting headlines like this? Was it determined clickbait?
I'm not the same person, but I feel similarly -- though I come from a classical family.

My preferences run to Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Brahms, and Wagner. Classical music generally got better as time went on. I mentally group Bach with other 'early music', and as with any art form, I recognize that the early steps were historically significant, but that's about it. I can appreciate the importance of the silent film era, too, even though I'll probably never sit down and watch one for fun.

With Bach in particular, how to put it... When making sound into music, there's all these possible axes upon which to add entropy to make it enjoyable: pitch, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, instrumentation, lyrics, and so on. Most of the Bach that I've heard or played is essentially a study in what happens if you fix the value of every axis except "pitch".

I assume that different people hear music differently, and for me, I find pitch to be one of the least interesting ways to make a piece of music. (Full disclosure: I play in an all-percussion ensemble, and I probably own more than a couple all-percussion albums.) The prelude to Bach's first cello suite is a neat study in what you can do with a single voice playing 16th notes for 2 minutes -- perhaps even the most interesting possible such line -- but it's still 2 minutes of 16th notes. Time (rhythm/tempo) and space (instrument/position) just feel so much more substantial to me than pitch.

I’ve got act 2 of "Die Walküre" playing right now. Which Bach piece is closest to that? :-) I went to a performance of the St Matthew Passion (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) back in college, and my recollection is that the performers did a good job but the piece was nothing special.
Let me try to be nuanced here:

I'm a friendly man who tries to make foreigners lives in my home country better, regardless of where they come from.

A lot of what you say makes sense.

But at the end I think you get very harsh while also being partly wrong (If I read you correctly.)

You say: "As for refugees, someone who says they have no right to be in Europe should -- in my opinion -- stop calling him- or herself a human being."

As far as I'm aware nobody has the right to be in another country than those that they belong to, except when it is agreed otherwise (visas, visa free zones, international rules about refugees etc).
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"The time had come, at 11:38 AM Eastern Standard Time" - at least look it up.
> I'd point out that the total sum invested in an ICO doesn't necessarily equal the sum available to the company issuing the coin.

That's exactly what it means. Circulating supply is a different story though based on lock up.

> If buyers invest USD 1,000,000,000 as in this case, then very theoretically, the issuer now holds USD 300,000,000 worth of the tokens they issued.

If the buyer sends $1bn directly to Telegram for any amount of coins then Telegram now has $1bn in the bank.
“You can see the telegram team pulling this off because you aren't in the crypto space. They are claiming to be able to solve open research problems that some of the best minds in the world have been studying for years, and don't have an answer to.”

Do you want to be specific? I suppose one question is do they need to pull off everything they claim in the whitepaper in order to be successful? Do you feel the things the Telegram team promise are an all or nothing deal.

If they just had hundreds of millions of people using Telegram for payments and perhaps filestorage/bots backed by crypto could they do that without all the things promised in the white paper? Would the market consider that a success and would that be reflected in the currencies price?
Have you seen him before and after smoking up? Anecdotally (my own eyes) cannabis does not improve schizophrenia.

Interestingly, administering enough THC to a healthy adult will produce schizophrenia and psychosis type symptoms, while administering CBD to a psychotic person was found in one study to work as well as first-line antipsychotics (and with fewer side-effects).

Unfortunately almost all modern cannabis hybrids have been optimized for THC, such that the natural balance between the psychotic and antipsychotic elements has been completely lost. There are a few "CBD only" strains but they are quite rare.

It is possible to buy CBD oil however, made from non-psychoactive hemp. All things considered, CBD oil should be much more helpful to your friend than smoking, and less risky (both legally and psychologically).

> The FDA of the United States considers hemp oil (and it's derivative CBD) to be a dietary supplement (not a medication), since they are made from industrial hemp plants. If you live in the US, this means you don't need a prescription and can legally purchase and consume Cannabidiol in any state.

Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional but this subject is very close to my heart.
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There were plenty of refugees turned away prior to WW2 who ended up in the extermination camps. This is where the 1951 international convention on refugees comes from.

Also, nobody's saying you don't have the right to hold that opinion, it's just that if you do we're going to have an extremely negative opinion of you.
> 1) They mess with the packages they distribute. Like, a lot, rather than trust upstream

Having had quite a lot of experience of both, what I call, maintained packages and wild west packages (e.g. pypi), I would trust the former over the latter any day of the week. Developers generally do not make tremendously good maintainers. They tend to to only really care about the latest versions of anything, don't take particular care to make sure their package works well with other packages, rarely backport security fixes, and frequently do everything in a unilateral way. (I've seen it all, subtly different tarballs uploaded under the same version number, old releases deleted, breaking changes released under minor version bumps, addition of user-hostile "features", downloading & installing unexpected random binaries from the internet in attempt to make everything "just work", and of course they're forever bundling odd versions of other packages which they then don't maintain...)

Maintainers working on a "distribution" have a responsibility to make the whole distribution of software work well & stably together, and they generally do so quite well with the odd slip up (I'm looking in the direction of the debian-openssl screwup).

These days I tend to use a debian base system with Nix on top of it for when I need specific, repeatable or more recent versions of something.
If you aren't convinced rolling downhill is complicated, physicist Walter Lewin has a demonstration involving cylinders, no fluids this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB8GNQuyMPc
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My favorite plugin is "Save Actions" which will save a copy of the file you're working on every minute with a different filename. It sounds silly until you realize that you just blew away the last two hours of work with some "I'm sure this is right" version control action.

And text is so small that I go clean out 500 MB of stuff every year or so.
I have no problem with offering ideas and suggestions when discussing how to build software, but honestly, I don't care if management decides to go a different route.

I'll code what they want the way they want it the best I can. That's the job. This approach can lead to some "I told you so" moments when I've been ignored and I deal with those when we run into them.

Over the years I've seen a lot of my coworkers get overly upset in these kinds of scenarios and have endured way too much time listening to them complain about it.

The thing is, there's almost always more than one way to do something. If it's my job to choose the route I'll do that and lead the way, and if it's not I'll follow the route chosen but I don't see any reason to get hurt or frustrated by it because I'm getting paid the same to work on it no matter which route is taken.

That said, there have been a few times when my route wasn't chosen and we got stuck right where I said we'd get stuck and in those cases the project either collapsed or we went back and started over using the tools and methods I suggested. Doing that "feels good" but it pays the same.
"Most stories about politics"

Emphasis mine.
Okay, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. But since you're now rather explicitly stating that the rise of the Nazis was the fault of some decidedly comical[0] anarcho-communists, I'm just going to mention that it was not.

1918/19 was a time of turmoil not easily compared to anything you may know. Very little of the events of the time fit neatly into any cause-and-effect timeline. One dominant symptom, but not necessarily cause, was open fighting in the streets between extremist groups of all stripes. You local communist pseudo-revolution doesn't even figure prominently among local communist pseudo-revolutions of the time.

It's much easier to clearly identify the (rather few) Germans who didn't succumb to the temptation of fascism. Social democrats would figure very prominently in such an analysis. Every other group of society, from old elites in politics, the military, or business, from academia to the clergy, became essential to the rise of Hitler, each in their own specific way.

[0]: seriously: read the Wikipedia article. Their Foreign Secretary complained to the Swiss that the key to the loo was missing!
I know you can define CSS for how you want your export to look.
Am also curious to know why this comment was downvoted. Enter recursive spiral of downvoting. Would love a justify your downvote feature on HN. People hide behind their downvotes.
What are arguing against, exactly? I'm a pro-legalisation recreational user. Did my post look like I mean drugs as something bad?
For the most part, just styling what it does isn't that tough. Similarly, you can tell it to spit out raw html for some fun. http://taeric.github.io/cube-permutations-1.html shows some silliness I did recently that includes styling up portions of the page.

Do you want to do something much more complicated/simple than this?
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It would cost a lot less to just have companies take a little more risk when hiring.

(There's nothing wrong with making higher education cost less for people that want to do it, but plenty of people are just seeking a credential they see as necessary for access to certain jobs, jobs which often don't need much of the higher education they purport to require)
This is always a dilemma for me... Alpine allows for really small packages, but I never got used to its packaging tools (and I don't feel confident writing Dockerfiles with it). A matter of practice I guess. Besides, Docker caches layers so if you're using some common base layer (like Ubuntu or Debian) it's probably already on the machine. So I usually write Dockerfiles as `FROM debian` and then later adapt them to Alpine if they're meant to be distributed.
> Uh, no? Maybe in 2013, but Bitcoin is used for substantially more than that today. It keeps people alive in Venezuela. A lot of African communities are finding it to be an excellent source of stability as well.

There have been a lot of puff pieces written about this. Very little actual proof in numbers.

> My company has done more than $10 million in hardware sales selling cryptocurrency miners for bitcoin. Bitcoin is really the only option for us, because there's so much fraud (check, credit, etc.) that we couldn't accept another form of payment without something like 30% markup. The instant finality (well, 1-2 hour finality) of Bitcoin makes that tractable.

Can you not take payments through Visa? I thought the standard was 2-3% for fees.

> Several startups that I know of have also gained a ton of traction and competitive edge by switching to bitcoin for payment rails. You won't know that they use Bitcoin based on their website or based on interacting with them, but when you send money to another country, they are on the back-end transferring bitcoin, and this allows them to shave days off of their process vs. competitors using other payment rails.

There aren't many companies taking Bitcoin. The book 50 foot blockchain by David Gerard has more on this. The gist though is that often a payment processor is encourages by Bitcoin maximalists to accept Bitcoin. Months later they realize no one is using it and remove it as a payment option. Then the Bitcoin maximalists pounce and harass them.

> Cryptocurrency services a very wide range of niches, because it offers several very substantial features that no other currency or payment option can offer. Beyond all the hype and sillyness, there is a technology that is actively changing the world and is gaining real traction every day.

In the niche of get rich quick it offers many features.
The problem with NIST curves (vs ed25519) is the choice of parameters (it is not clear why they have such and such values) and the implementation edge cases. You already know it but maybe someone else will find it interesting: https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/

The comment about post quantum crypto did not relate to ECC directly. I just would like to see some PQ crypto in OpenPGP :)
Where most seems to mean all stories are allowed. This isn't a new or novel idea. The paper is even six months old.

Like i said, if this fits under that restriction then almost anything fits. You might just as well remove that line and start allowing all politics since that what it is in practice.
Is it just me or does someone else also thinks that the comments section is incredibly enlightening to read! :-)
There are just as many girls in high school math classes than boys[1], and they tend to do just as well as boys. Most STEM programs also offer scholarships exclusively to women. At what point should we recognize that it just doesn't seem to be a career path women want to take? Should we really coax them to go into careers they don't want en masse?

[1] https://edsource.org/2017/girls-now-outnumber-boys-in-high-s...
Ive tried so many times to use gnus over the years, without luck. Any suggestions? Or links?
There are loads more web enabled devs than protocol hackers. It's a way of doing this on the cheap.
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I live and work in California, so it's way easier in my head to subtract one hour during the few winter months we're on standard time, and then not have to do any math from March to October.

UTC always requires a bunch of mental gymnastics to subtract 7 or 8.
Well, I'm not a law-making politician, I'm not denying anyone of anything. But it seems like a convenient deflection from self-reflection (what if what I said is right?); just be outraged and say it's my fault that people are joining populist parties.

I do agree about the impact, and at least for Germany, the half-assed way the government is handling the crisis will lead to a lot of pain and grief, on both sides (the refugees and the native population)

As the mods say, let's just stay out of the politics.
Is it possible to create an adversarial example without access to the weights of a model, and without being able to forward many images through it?
Doesn't Geany use Scintilla? Support for scintilla exists out there and in fact I just found this PR which seems to have gotten stuck: https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/193

You can probably get syntax highlighting by copying the required file in the right place.
Well, we are infiltrated anyway by many radical leftists and social justice warriors which are poisoning the tech sector, so something like that is just plain normal in these days.
My favorite part of the article was this memorable quote:

A man convinced against his
will,
Is of the same opinion still.

Cleanly sums up the phenomenon.