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Energy efficiency is important (in a server/bitminer and in mobile), but do you have figures for (1) performance; (2) cost?

Custom asics would be expensive now, but perhaps... exponential... cost decrease with sufficient demand. A related approach is programmable asics. I've heard this was researched decades ago, but (I presume), silicon was so cheap, so to speak, it wasn't worth it then.

Today, with "peak silicon", perhaps all these discarded tailings will be picked over. To mix mining metaphors.
Hard to say it applies of it's not enforceable. That's re-defining apply to meaninglessness. It's also a window into the argument that there's no attempt to make "global gov" via subversion of national sovereignty.
I realize it’s annoying, but the requirement to register “lost” share capital is a common one in Europe.

Think of it as a warning flag to potential lenders. The default assumption in society is that limited liability corporations have enough assets that it’s safe to sell them something on credit, i.e. invoicing rather than cash. Forcing companies to register the fact that their equity is negative provides an easy way for vendors to look up this warning flag.

I’m not directly familiar with Estonian law, but I’ve run a couple of Finnish companies. If the law is similar, it’s not that the government registry would be actively filing for bankruptcy if you have negative equity, but it does create potential liability for board members if the company goes bankrupt and the board failed to register negative equity when the information was available to them.
These are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pages of mathematics text" and also do a ton of problems, many of which will take hours and some which will require days of thinking.

I you aren't willing to invest the energy and effort to do that, all the video watching won't do anything for you. It will get you 5% of the way at best. The true learning comes from staring at a problem for hours, trying 100 dead ends, and then finally having an insight two days later while taking a shower that suddenly make that intractable problem seem trivial.
everyone has something to hide, especially now when you're on facebook if you want it or not.
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Are you sure about that?

If that's the case, what do you think this means: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=821270
> How could a computer simulation perform exponential time operations efficiently?

Assume P=NP.

P currently not being NP is exactly the kind of thing someone would build into a simulation to prevent stack overflows.

(I don't believe in simulation because: why would anyone that advanced bother?)
Asking the real questions.
But some people do fear for their life, because this kind of shit has happened to them before.
> Remember the 1960s when rapid gains in space tech made everyone think we'd be travelling around the solar system by 2000?

I think space tech is a different beast economically - the intensive had been more to compete for global dominance in the 1960s and not so much demand (from the general public) to travel in space. I believe there is a bigger intensive to have faster processors now but we might be hitting physical/engineering limitations so we go distributed.
“Officer, I already got a ticket for speeding last week”, you mean?

That won’t work. It’s 4% max, per infringement.
I have not read the book, but I have a hard time imagining any world in which the Cell could possibly be successful. Its heterogeneous architecture thrust a huge amount of complexity onto software developers in exchange for meager gains. Writing good code for it was difficult and expensive compared to other platforms. Sony was just completely out of touch with reality.

In 2007, Gabe Newell famously complained that the Cell was "a waste of everybody's time. Investing in the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There's nothing there that you're going to apply to anything else. You're not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they've created."
At APS March Meeting in LA, there were groups fabricating Josephson junctions. They appeared to be succeeding at ~15mK and individual logic gates, not ICs. I got the impression that their field was advancing steadily, but there was no excitement in their section, unlike anything with buzzwords like "machine learning", or "topological".
Not at all. In modern many-core chips, latency and complexity are already mitigated by having cores talk to only their neighbors. A meter-wide version would run at the same clock speed, if you could make it.
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> he actually WAS an bad actor in the past, so it's still hard to trust somebody

If you don't forgive/forget, there is no incentive for the person to behave differently. E.g. if someone once was involved with the police and as a result cannot get any proper job anymore, how would this individual ever change?

Some countries seem to focused on punishing people for the rest of their lives. This sometimes under the assumption that people actually consider the impact of their actions before do it.

Further, if a person is considered to be/treated as a criminal all the time then eventually they'll just behave as one.
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DJB's primitives are generally simpler than what came before. They're easy to implement, pretty easy to immunise against timing attacks, and relatively easy to review.

So we're not just trusting DJB here. We're trusting a sizeable community that reviewed his work.
Somewhat ironically, it took me about a minute to find a ripoff report claiming some contractor was stiffed working on Bridg-it for several thousand.

The name behind that complaint appears to be a real person, with an active twitter account with hundreds of followers and over a thousand tweets.
I think the more interesting question is: Will my comments on HN be deletable on archive.org under the GDPR law?
> Separating out the support process (to automation, to contractors, etc.) makes it easy to forget you’re not writing code to serve robots, you’re writing code to serve people.

On the other hand, support duty means you're regularly interacting with people who have problems with your product, and they will commonly be either in a bad mood (due to stuff not working) or just run-of-the-mill assholes (because that's the people who tend to complain). That doesn't necessarily endear them to you, especially when you're not high on socialisation in the first place.
I think my comment wasn't clear. I am saying, given that I can choose any lang/platform for my new project, and crypto lib quality is the most important, which lang/platform + crypto lib should I choose? Ignoring other factors, what is the best implemented crypto lib out there right now (specifically for TLS or in general)?

For me at least, I chose Go on a recent network project specifically because of the blessed, quality crypto impl for things I needed.
> After dessert, Yalincak said his driver would be coming to get him. But out on the curb, Ervine spotted him jumping into a beat-up cab.

> "The hair stood up on the back of my neck," Ervine says.

I know the context somewhat justifies his reaction but still it's very funny to think of a world in which getting into a taxi prompts the person you're meeting with to contact law enforcement...I mean what if his driver just got caught in traffic? What if he decided he wanted to ditch the driver and have some privacy? Instead his dinner host is watching him out a window and decides his choice of transport is suspect?
Relativity in a nut shell.
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I stopped using facebook in 2008, and I wonder if my social life degraded because of not using it.

Since everyone is on it, it would make sense that not using it would "exclude" you or a social standard or norm.

There are two sides to this.

First, I don't since exchanging on facebook is relevant or meaningful social exchange. Teamspeak or skype are more meaningful, but facebook only brings delayed text, photo and video, while real time matters more.

The second side is that as I've discussed already, there are no discovery feature on facebook. You don't make new friends thanks to facebook, you only do with Tinder, meetup, Uber, etc. The friendship relation in facebook is one of exclusivity. I don't think facebook events or groups are really attractive to users, or really do create new friendships, beyond the classical scenario of real life meeting. If you make new friends, it's not really thanks to facebook, because organizing an event can be done on any other platform, or even by email.

So it's true that user base matters a lot, but facebook seems to have little to no usefulness. It's just for messaging, posting photos, event exposure. It's just a very large myspace, with improved features, but it brings nothing new to the table.
What is the definition of "correct" in this context that we can all agree to?
The counteracting force to that will be that they complexity of the surrounding environment increases and becomes more brittle, or is just simply in the way, as constantly increasing demands for new features drifts further from the capabilities of the old system in the middle.

A few years ago, SAS introduced a new status tier. It took 18 months to introduce into the system (Amadeus). The system may be stable, but those kinds of turn around times for a minor customer service change simply isn't feasible. I don't have numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reasons upstart airlines such as EasyJet are competitive is that their IT is comparatively modern and can actively support the organisation while IT is more of a millstone around the legacy airlines' necks.
The universe doesn't enforce logic in the form of twins paradoxes and all that tomfoolery. Spacetime is a physical object not a logically consistent human centric clone enforcer.
Sounds like a good idea. Have you actually tried this "in production"?
What you're talking about is way over my head, but I do understand Linux might be more appropriate for more low-level stuffs and hardcode users like you at the kernel level. I'm happy doing React on my Mac :)
> Surprise surprise, he's the founder of a company selling a service to help people erase shit from google.

Surely that makes complete sense? The bloke spent 100k on the effort, from that they can infer:

1. there's need for a middleman able to handle that for people who don't have the time or money

2. if you can do it for significantly below 100k there's lots of money to be made
You can directly telnet in, yeah, but it's not a great way to play. There are plenty of MUD clients (for Discworld in particular you want one compatible with MCCP compression) that are designed for playing in a terminal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD_client

I played on Discworld MUD for many years, quite some time ago. It's probably been 15 years since I last logged in. Very tempting to stick my head back in there!
For those needs I've used i3[0] (and lately sway[1]), which both are really nice tiling WMs.

Although sometimes, just sometimes... Having manually tweakable windows and a more complete "desktop environment" makes sense and is just what I need.

For those needs, right now I use Gnome 3. It would be fun trying to replace that with CDE though :)

[0] https://i3wm.org/

[1] http://swaywm.org/
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"If the net assets are less than half of the share capital or less than the minimum capital requirement of EUR2,500 regarding private limited liability companies and EUR250,000 regarding public limited liability companies, the shareholders must decide on:

(1) The implementation of measures as a result of which the net assets would form at least half of the share capital and minimum capital requirement Or
(2) Dissolution, merger, division, transformation of the company Or
(3) Submission of a bankruptcy petition"

http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/Doing_business_in_E...

Put in 100000€ and you will need to have 50000€, not 2500€. You will need quite many laptops and phones for 50k€ ;)
This is a leadership problem at the companies employing these people.

The isolation and disconnect you're observing is deliberate, and certainly facilitates the execution of the strategy. But higher up the chain is where the decisions are being made to distance the organization from its users.
Not really. In France 60% of doctors are female. 80% for new judges. Is that the self perpetuation of a stereotype? Are these low pay/low influence professions? If you measure discrimination just by the outcome provided it is a lucrative/powerful profession then these should be deemed to be discriminations. I don’t believe they are.

In the technology field, I have studied engineering in France, where the top school were only accessible through an anonymous competitive exam. There is very little room for discrimination there. Just math and physics exercises on an anonymous piece of paper. But both the candidates and the students who were selected were 80% male. Of course recruiters end up hiring 80% male engineers, how could it be not the case? But that’s not discrimination.
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I find it baffling that this guy gets any support here at all:

1) he actually has the money to spend on this. He doesn't have a problem.

2) he's advertising his own company, and it's a typical scam : he's advertising his ability to take information about someone down ...

3) Needless to say, this person is selling "his services" to things like K-12 schools (read: customers that pay, but don't want to pay, and how much do you want to bet they never see any of that service they paid for, but never wanted ?)
I mean they have this system in Europe because it's legally mandated so they just can't be bothered to pay for the employees to run it in the US.
Ah darn, US-only. Looks really interesting, good luck in your endeavours!
How/why? Could you elaborate? Will the rouge tower drop the phone? Won't the phone try to connect again and again to the tower with the strongest signal?
No, it is supposed to reduce surface area between modules/jars. Before Java9 library creators could only add "internal" to their packages name and hope end users won't touch it.

The introduction of modules might actually make version hell even worse: https://blog.codefx.org/java/dev/will-there-be-module-hell/
This is a good point. However for me the annoyance is not about reporting the decrease, it's the fact that if capital drops below 50%, government is now in control whether they exercise that control or not. I would understand something like 10% but 50% is just ridiculous to me.
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GDPR allows you to remove the data if you discover they cross the line. Optimistically that encourages them to be good citizens about it so they can keep using that data.
It's still technically possible to make chips with smaller nodes than the current mainstream processes allow, although this is uneconomical due to low yields and extremely thin margins.
Spying is a big problem in Eve. At the most basic level a spy is able to take screenshots and copy/paste text to send back to the entity they're spying for. By watermarking both text and forum backgrounds the data effectively becomes tainted in the sense that the screenshot/text will have unique characteristics that allow the original poster to identify who copied the data in the first place.

The whole flow would be:

- X is a player in alliance FOO but is actually an agent planted there by alliance BAR.

- Y is a player in alliance BAR but is actually an agent planted there by alliance FOO (or any other).

- X copies intel from FOO's forums and sends it back to the people in charge of the spy program in BAR.

- That intel gets shared with key personnel in alliance BAR, so they can take action based on the gathered intelligence; unknown to BAR, among that personnel is Y

- Y sees that intel and sends it back to their leadership in alliance FOO

- The people at alliance FOO identify the unique data on that intel and track it down to X and proceed to kick him for being a spy.

As someone who is involved with alliance leadership stuffs: This may sound convoluted but it's really bread-and-butter level stuff in Eve, it can get significantly weirder. For example this article discusses whitespace character-based fingerprinting: that's amateur level, like described elsewhere in this thread.

To answer your question: counter-intelligence. If your method for tagging data is known and easy to replicate, such as watermarking your forum userID in screenshots, the people at alliance BAR can edit the screenshot (or forge a new one) where they insert the userID of an innocent person in alliance FOO in the gathered intel, this way when Y grabs the data for sending back to FOO, they'll be unknowingly sending evidence that incriminates a loyal member.

edit: I noticed I didn't address your last question. Signing data is just regular cryptographic signing yeah, in the above example to prevent tampering you'd insert the hash from the userID plus a secret salt for example. You just need some way to prevent the hostiles from incriminating someone else.
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C. It has the widest range of support for crypto libraries, basically any reference implementation of modern crypto algorithms happens in C. Almost all existing libraries are either written in C or support C FFI.

So the most widely supported platform for crypto libs would be C.

But C is probably not a good choice due to other factors outside crypto lib support.

I think the best implemented crypto lib out there atm is NaCl (djb). It has very few functions that take obvious parameters with which you can't blow your leg off (the only danger is repeating a nonce but generating a random nonce or sequential nonce is within the realm of "I expect most people to be able to read /dev/random".)

Second would be any crypto library that is implemented similar: few leg-blow-off-safe functions that do all the hard parts for you.
Well I hear Somalia is great this time of year and they have very little regulation of oversight to speak of, perhaps you’d feel more liberty there? Or if that’s too warm of a climate for you, there are portions of Antarctica that are accessible most of the year. And I don’t despise libertarians, at all. I used to identify very strongly with both the political party and the philosophy. And then I grew up.
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Random lurking on IRC, overheard a conversation about this cool MUD based on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I was maybe 10, and man did it take a long time to figure out at first. 20 some odd years later and I still find myself drawn back here and there. Being able to pop in via SSH or a command line client made it great for staying inconspicuous in places where I probably shouldn't have been playing a game.

I still have many good friends from it, and it connected me with great people from countries completely across the globe.

If you're into Tolkien and want to give it a go, check out http://t2tmud.org. Or just SSH towers@t2tmud.org.
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See this experiment for a real transparent metal. Admitedly, the conditions are kinda extreme :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGMfai_ICg

Don't mind the intro, the interesting part starts at around 2:00
That's another good way of illustrating the problem, however this is still just a symptom of the underlying problem. Models do not have the causal structure of the thing they model.

The reason the model would require near infinite time to run is that its modelling a causal event, it isnt an instance of the same causal event.

When electrical fields oscillate they model a bridge. No amount of activity would ever make them "solid".

All "real" stuff is infinite. This form of infinity is really about saying that our descriptions cannot capture the "full depth" of the world. The world itself has no "depth". Models, rather, are simply partial descriptions of it.

To turn a model into the thing its modelling via increasing its descriptive power quickly introduces infinities: its impossible. To make a model "accurate" in this sense, you must actually just make another example of the target. Ie., build that bridge.
> You have to filter out accidents, suicides, and targeted crimes. A non-suicidal, non-gunowner

A non car-owner who never leaves the house is unlikely to die in a traffic accident.
This guide is amazing. It's incredibly useful to be offered one happy path that lets non-experts (myself included) get started easily.

BUUUUUT I can't help reading these and being reminded of Vernor Vinge's "Net of a Million Lies", where people looking for shortcuts end up getting traps. We know that state actors have haunted academic and industry efforts to disseminate info and implementations of cryptography, inserting weaknesses -- resulting confusion is part of why we need guides like this.

How do we know when we can trust a "new media" guide like this one? Can non-practitioners adopt tests that inexpensively verify validity of suggestions like these? Is HN (now with "fight me" threads!) state of the art social proof, or are there other ways to incentivize expert review (without exposing those same experts to centralized influence)?

For clarity, I'm explicitly NOT suggesting this guide is a trap -- I sure has heck wouldn't know, but I don't think so and will be using it :) Just getting meta.
If one or two (million) US citizens data happen to get included, well that’s unfortunate. It’s not against the law in those countries. Purely by coincidence, these other countries can then notify the US government if they see something of interest, some dirt on a US citizen. Now there is something to be concerned about and the US government has cause to look more closely. Outsource all unkempt activity!
Not sure. Ask around (on the Slack) though! I'd use external CSS.
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All of them seem to in my experience. They charge a "Non Sterling Transaction Fee"
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