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I recently realized the (obvious in hindsight) fact that general intelligence better that brute force doesn't exist, as intelligence is equivalent to compression.

Given the recent discoveries about neurons using mRNA capsids to communicate [0] it's not that farfetched to posit that we are really dna computers [1]. The processing time (for new problems) seems human-like: "The slow processing speed of a DNA-computer (the response time is measured in minutes, hours or days, rather than milliseconds)"

The evolutionary argument: as DNA computing is already used by microbes [2] how could the nervous system made of (relatively) dumb neurons compete with that? Synapses still make sense - as a way to request a rna packet and/or inform that it's coming and from where.

One neuron with capability of ~10M pattern matches per second (encoded in dna/rna) would mean that the human brain executes ~2^60 pattern-matching operations per second, utilizing zettabytes of imperfectly copied data. Enough to brute force its way through lots of problems.

Memory as dna would explain high-level memory quirks: each read would be destructive, by splitting dna into rna, interacting with other rna under the presence of appropriate enzymes, then copying and disseminating the resulting rna, transforming the memory each time it's retrieved.

It would also explain urban legends about people's personalities changing to resemble their organ donors in some way - as a donor's memory packets that somehow ended up on the donor's organ and, with the help of immunosuppressants, managed to infect the receiver's brain.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00492-w

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_intelligence
> That did not happen.

Is the Washington Post & OPCW lying?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chemical-weapons-coveru...

I assume you believe that since you also apparently believe Russian and Syrian claims that a volunteer search and rescue organization that's helped thousands of people is really made up of terrorists generating false flag stories. And by the downvotes you aren't the only one.

Though I also see you don't have any response to the fact that over 70 chemical weapon attacks have been reported.
>maximum observed frequency of a neuron's output.

IIRC the frequency of a neuron's output is used to encode the magnitude of the signal.

Take for example a neuron transmitting a pain signal, low frequency is used to transmit low levels of pain.

High frequency, extreme pain.
> Anyone who has had to do with the manufacturing side of car makers (German ones anyway) knows how highly optimized from end-to-end their processes are. It seems doubtful that anyone could leapfrog this amount of accumulated process knowledge and optimization simply by way of being new.

I think with this way of thinking there will never be progress. It's thanks to this try-and-fail that this man was able to build things that nobody thought to be feasible. We are talking about mistakes that were done in the '80s, meaning that this man is trying to leverage what we have nowadays and he still can't, which is pretty sad, considering how advanced we think of ourselves compared to 40 years ago.

Sometimes it's this way of thinking that really prevents innovation: we tried, it didn't work. Sure, you tried under different circumstances, I am quite sure you gave up on that for whatever reason and you are fine with it. Good lesson. However, there will be a new generation that will make it, no matter all your "I told you so".

I want to see if in the future, when we'll have highly developed AIs, we will think "oh, 200 years ago we tried already and it didn't work".
Except it won’t work at scale. What happens when it snows and there aren’t enough call center workers to take over for all the drivers who need it? Probably a few times a year around here there is enough snow and it’s enough of a surprise where it takes a while to clean up even major roads so you can see the lines. If self driving cars need lines in the road or else a human to take over in that situation, you’re talking about cities grinding to a halt several times a year.
Yeah it's definitely odd, and rationally makes zero sense as you've pointed out, but feelings are weird, especially feelings of nostalgia and tradition.
That’s a pretty huge upside IMO...

It’s actually even faster than instant deposit on Venmo because the funds appear to settle instantly (not just transferred instantly)
Is this the post you're referring to?

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
Um. A car is not software. How do I do a pull request for a new clutch.

I hear ya. But your analogy is buggy.
By "similar functionality" are you talking about domains? If so, it's been deprecated for quite a while, but has never been removed.
The impression I got from the article was that he was using a recent WSJ article[0] about Boise as an impetus to bash urban development.

The WSJ article is basically, that it’s cheaper to buy a house in Boise. Sure it is, but there’s nothing about what these people moving to the Boise metro area (population 700k) are doing. The two Californians they talk to are, a CEO who bought a second house, and a soon to be retiree. As it is, this is more of a cutting indictment of California, than Fort Lauderdale is of NYC.

Yes, the housing in the desirable parts of California is too high, but at the same time, it’s high because it is desirable. It’s cheap to live in places where no one wants to live. If I wanted, I could move back to where I grew up and a buy a house for $27,000[1], but then I’d be Royalton, Illinois.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/boise-idaho-feels-the-growing-p...

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/209-5th-St-N-Royalton-IL-...
Why is this a bad thing?

I live in a midsize city. High quality housing is $110/sqft. I can walk to my kids school, shopping, library and dining. My kid can take a bus to malls and parks, and my commute is approximately 7-10m, and few commutes around here would exceed 20-30. I can be in NYC or Boston in <3 hours. NYC by train is an option.

Why would you want to move from such a place to NYC or SFO?
The 14-screen theatre I used to work at as a projectionist doesn't employ anyone to run the projectors anymore- it's all automated.
Well, sometimes. It’s no coincidence that the Nike swoosh fits perfectly along the side of a shoe. If you’re a design company and you can integrate your logo as a design element and it adds something instead of standing out as a gratuitous advertising badge, you have an advantage. See also: the three Adidas stripes.
It is, I rather like it. There is a 1 business day delay for your first transaction fyi, which is a reasonable fraud deterrent. All transactions thereafter between Zelle members are instant and free though!
I literally can't shut off my machine with my eyes closed. And the screen reader is even worse, I can't even shut that off with my eyes open when I accidentally enable it.
Plus, cost of living doesn't account for everything. Most consumer products, e.g. cars, computers, shoes, and clothing, cost about the same everywhere. Living in San Francisco with a higher salary and paying a high rent, your spending on such products will be a smaller percentage of your income than if you lived somewhere with cheaper housing and made less money.
As a result of the recent growth Boise now has the 7th largest income gap in the nation[0]. And the median home price recently shot up $11k in one month[1].

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/migration...

[1]: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article208855154...
If other people suggesting that, hey, maybe we should actually be able to express a number correctly makes you splutter about "vogons" or whatever, perhaps it is not they who should take a step back. (For this isn't just "massive" numbers, but anything that isn't a float--themselves ranking just after `null` as the worst disaster in current use in general-purpose programming.)

Telling people to "just" take actions that decrease the reliability and the rigor of their data because of...vogons?...is one of those weird middlebrow things that HN tends to try to steer clear of, last I checked.

(edit: To be clear, I get the reference, I think it's a silly one both for the childish regard the poster to whom I am replying has for other people and textually because it doesn't even hang.)
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The Zelle app has had very poor Android support for quite a while... When I first tried to get the app to receive money it didn't even allow the account registration OR login flow to complete without the app crashing.
This seems to be comparing them on their own terms. In more curious on features. Dragon naturally speaking and some other products have been really impressive for years now. Far beyond what my phone is capable of.

Not to say that the likes of the echo and others aren't impressive. Just that the speech recognition is the least of those products. Fully transcribed voice mail was available for years with Google voice (even before it was Google voice), yet that seems to happen less now than it did when I first for the product.

So what changed? And why?
Segregation.
I think a world where multiple, visible sysadmins compete is much better than a world that pretends to have none when in fact their technology enables invisible, undetectable but exceptionally powerful groups to form out of self interest. Wouldn't you agree?
Housing isn’t twice as expensive in San Francisco, it is 10x. Median price per square foot is $129 in Boise, vs $1550 for Palo Alto, or $993 in SF, $1220 SOMA.
Many American cities feel like they've just suffered a bombing raid and are in the process of rebuilding. It's parking lots, abandoned buildings, and other junk for as far as the eye can see.
Note that blockchain and economy (or more precisely finance) are two very different things. Do not mix up blockchains and cryptocurrencies. The first is a distributed system creating a centralized log, the second is a class of (very classic, mostly unregulated) financial assets (which could be constructed on top of very different architectures). I'm pretty sure this guy doesn't even care about the financial asset thing, he is criticizing the blockchain from a computer-science pow.
One of the examples used in the article, isn’t an argument against Zelle. Some chick sending a cash transfer for the full amount of some concert tickets got burned by some dude on craigslist.

Didn’t know Venmo came with schmuck insurance.
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I'd recommend courses by Stephen Grider (https://www.udemy.com/user/sgslo/). I've been through some of his courses (React/React Native, Phoenix Elixir, Solidity). And all of them were very well documented, focused and accurate. Great stuff!
Looks like they've removed that section.

21 April has 8 sections but now it's only 7.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180421071949/https://www.event...

but in such a rush they didn't update the introduction which still mentions filming and recording.
If you bothered to actually read the site, then you'd know that the articles there come from many authors and many sources - some of them even from the so-called "alarmist" side of things, though the site itself is usually tagged as "denialist". (Hence my balanced comment - they do generally cover stuff from both sides.) Comments from the site's owner and from readers about all of these articles can get quite interesting and heated, though.

As an example of crap, a couple of articles were recently posted there about the current Judge Alsup proceedings - articles that were quite clearly incorrect to those of us actually following the proceedings; the reader comments called out this error. I don't know if the authors of those articles ever actually went back and corrected them, but I'm thinking not - which is bad! Also, I have on occasion seen things quoted there which weren't actual quotes, but rather paraphrases (to put it nicely) - which is also bad! For the record, these days the "legitimate" press is sometimes very bad at doing this kind of thing, too, but it seems that they are rarely called out for it.
This would be a much better defense if PoW blockchains solved ANY problems.

As far as I can tell, they provide inferior guarantees AND performance to existing methodologies and algorithms.
There's also the Torsen differential [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/JEiSTzK-A2A
You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts
Not yet. I've asked permission to open source it. It's basically epoll-based, evented, and it's darned simple.
What makes baseball more athletic than cricket?
And likely they will be unable to build a good product, ever. You can't have decision making dissonance at the most senior levels of your organization and make good products.

Resources alone solve no product problems, leadership is far more important. I know of a $10B company whose most important feature (by far) of it's consumer facing app fails well over half the time customers tried to use it. This problem has been known for nearly a year and at no point has the team been allowed to make fixing it a priority.
Agreed. Otherwise there's plenty of alternatives, like diaspora. Supercool etc, however quite unlikely to replace Facebook any time soon...
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> The GDPR is a directive- it doesn't need to be passed into national law.

Not true, it's not optional.

> Are you talking about national laws that implement regulations similar to, but distinct to the GDPR?

The GDPR is a directive - it sets sort of a framework that the local implementation have to be based upon. It sets some boundaries, but in case of GDPR, the boundaries are very broad (compared to other directives).

> For the government to make money, the judges will need to find against the various companies. But why will the judges sit idly by and watch the government making money out of a racket they themselves make possible, without asking for a cut?

No. The public prosecutor will fight (and for these guys, it's about the ideology that the law must be followed, most of the time), the judge will just... judge. Their job is to judge whether someone follows the law, they would be doing their job. Are judges (or public prosecutors) asking for cuts from compensations to road crash victims?

> Or, to be more precise- what is the incentive for the judges to do the government's favour and interpret the GDPR in the broad manner required for the conspiracy to work?

None, because that's not their job and no one is asking them to do that. It's the lawmaker's job to implement the directive and the output of that job is a law - and judge's job is to judge whether a person (legal or not) follows the law - as in the local implementation, not the GDPR directive itself.

This works like this: Countries are required to implement EU directives into their local laws, but the directive itself is not a law - if the country doesn't implement a directive, even if someone violates it (inside the country, cross-border is another issue), the company will not be persecuted (but the government will be - by the EU).

> So it's three countries- Italy, Greece and Croatia? Is that right?

I don't know, it's not my "conspiracy theory". I'm just talking about the inner workings of the EU and have said that not every EU country is pristine clean. But I suppose you could add some of the Baltic states, Romania, Hungary and maybe Poland (if they continue their way down with PiS). We will have to see what happens in Slovakia, for a while it looked really bad but now it seems like they're back on track. In the Czech Republic, the German/Austrian corporate owners wouldn't allow it.
In my experience 60-70k is considered to be a 'high' salary in Boise. Like, someone outside of tech who is making is 60k considers themselves to be upper middle class. I know people who relocated from Boise to Bay area, and were given 30-40% salary boosts for cost of living. Of course, at the time real estate was so cheap in Boise, it was commonly noted that it actually costs much more than 30-40% more to live in the Bay area than it does in Boise, but that's what was offered.
> There's nothing like the crazy stupid money that Californians are brining in to the housing market

In Austin we used to call them "equity refugees".

Good luck.
People can collude to get a disrporotionate amount of the profit from a blockchain. The more people collude, the more profit they get, the more rational it is to join them.

This then bridges into traditional 51% attacks.
Although the OP didn't describe as such, but health checks that do a simple query are also testing the connectivity to the db. Someone might have hardcoded a db address in an environment variable, or there are connection pooling issues.
A conglomerate of giant, old, non-tech companies tried to launch a casual and trendy service, and the software sucks? I'm shocked.

That said: "...a phishing email that appeared to be from Wells Fargo tricked her into entering her bank ID and password into a fraudulent website." This situation didn't depend on Zelle's existence to be possible. I would say the problem here is browsers not doing a good enough job helping people identify when a site isn't the one they think it is, but it's a tough problem.
Your product doesn't need to be good if you control the market for it.

You’re going to go start a bank you say? See BankSimple and Standard Treasury (and their abysmal exits to real banks, BBVA and Silicon Valley Bank, respectively) to see what that path looks like.

Having a great product alone is not good enough.
Tokyo is also not particularly congested.
> Austin's gripes from 5-10 years ago

Started in the mid-90s here, but yeah.
> It would be weird to see a large fluctuation in exports-- why would Syrian consumers suddenly begin demanding or abandoning their use of rubbing alcohol? Demand is most likely constant.

Did you account for the effect of trade sanctions on fluctuations of imports / exports?

I’m no world leader, but if I was subjected to trade sanctions and international scrutiny I’d get critical health supplies in large enough quantities in case they also stop trading those with me in the future.
Micron - One of the worst places you could ever work. The amount of people coming out of there with PTSD was very high when I was in boise.

Clearwater - Old and boring

T-Sheets - sold to behemoth that will mess it all up

Blackbox VR - some guy who got lucky with a body building forum blowing money

Kount - ya scammy payment processing for the win

HP - reorg and layoffs never ending.

Tons of pretentious digital marketing firms who really only work for hp.

I can go on and on. The tech scene there is a joke don't listen to anyone who says otherwise.
> somebody in Cincinnati

I love how my old city gets mentioned randomly a lot .. like the first episode of BoJack Horseman with the Penguin.
Chunked transfer encoding means that the sender sends <length>\r\n<chunk-of-that-length>\r\n... but each chunk can be of different length. A zero-length chunk terminates the transfer.

Chunked transfer encoding is used when the sender doesn't yet know the length of the resource's representation.
Thanks Matt! I added your article link and related info to the repo: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan/c...
Started? No, ibidibi did that.
Question: Has there been a comprehensive study on the activation function of a single (biological) neuron?
> If you switch from Chrome to Firefox on Android you find all kinds of features missing, like in image search.

I've been on Firefox nightly Android for eight months now. While generally the browsing is better than chrome thanks to ad blocking, the Google services are pared down versions for no reason. Search, finance, news, so many. This is a clear case of abusing market dominance - and not due to Firefox missing any feature. If not for the revenue from Google, Mozilla would have sued I think.
The article's point is that the churn of spillover-boomtowns will continue: once the current crop of towns starts getting built out and accumulating problems like unaffordable housing, nightmarish traffic, lack of easy greenfield land to develop with cookie-cutter houses on tiny lots and giant office parks, the developers will find the next wave of towns to exploit, probably long before most of the human misery materializes in the one they just left behind.

Boise/Meridian/Nampa may be the flavor of the day now, but by the time you're commuting from Fruitland because you couldn't afford a home in Boise, the region will have become just another dusty built-out suburban disaster buoyed by but a handful of overinfluential employers -- like Tucson -- and you'll be reading articles about whatever buzzword is being used for the new generation moving to Hermiston and Hickory and fortunately-placed small towns no one has never heard of. This is not at all different from the cycle of suburbs that plays out within every metro [1][2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880084#11880734 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13665669#13666473 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16744401#16746390
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Do small businesses have enough data to do something useful with ML/DL ? what ?
Market an electric luxury sedan first?

Before Tesla, EV were seen as clunky, not very convenient and half baked conversion from already existing gas vehicles chassis. A few people were buying them because "hey, I'm saving the planet" (not really, this sweet electricity is still coming from fossil fuel).

But Tesla made EV kind of sexy, partly due to Musk other adventures that made people dream, mainly SpaceX, but also because of the "sporty" feel of the Model S and the "high tech" image of it.

Frankly, personally, I'm a bit tired of all the "praise Musk like a god" thing. The guy is refreshing in a world where everything must summarized in Excel and companies seems to be managed more by accountants rather than technology.

The guy is interesting as it has made the public aware of new possibilities regarding cars. He has unlocked something. But should we deify him for that? no. EV are still under conventional cars in term of autonomy, cost and reloading time. And personally, I think that cars are kind of a waist of resources to begin with: it costs a ton, it consumes a lot of energy per passenger and it's a mostly underused complex piece of machinery (few hours of commute every day at most).

Nowadays, I kind of wish for Tesla to crash and burn. I know it's irrational (and I will probably be down voted for it), but at least, it will shut-up the other irrational part of the audience praising Musk constantly and without reserve.
It's still iffy. I have to reenter my phone number every time I open the app
When I pass the tech interview I fail leadership, when I pass the leadership I fail tech. Kind of amusing. Amazon and Facebook are still interested in me but I'm not interested in studying algorithms for them again for a while. I like studying algorithms but am more interested in specific algorithms at the moment, not random undergraduate ones. Google has me on the 3 strikes list.
Could you give some examples?

Sure. In fact, Zapier have a good example right on their home page, showing a connection between someone submitting a form to Wufoo and adding their email address to a MailChimp mailing list.

For automation purposes, Wufoo can trigger a webhook when a form is submitted and MailChimp have a REST API that can be used to manage mailing lists. So, if I wanted to automate that sort of task, I’d probably just set up an endpoint on a server to receive those webhooks and then write a few lines of Python to extract the required form fields and send them off to MailChimp, instead of introducing the additional dependency and potentially cost of an intermediary service like Zapier.