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It's sort of not cool to choose a16crypto as your username. HN wouldn't work if we didn't have identities, and traditionally the identity of the author is taken by the author.

On the other hand, it's immediately obvious you're unrelated, so maybe it doesn't matter.

To answer your question, as the world stabilizes and the crypto scene becomes less tumultuous, we'll see the rise of traditional models. It's a smart move to start that process sooner rather than later.

In the old days, you won by controlling a "channel" -- whether it's a literal TV channel, or a limited asset, or anything where people had to go through you and you alone.

The internet briefly disrupted that old model. But once again it's true: YC won thanks to HN, for example. It's a channel they control, and it shapes us and the way we think.

Once ICO scams stop working, people will eventually realize that the fundamentals are what matter: solid networks, solid resources, and a vision with a group of people to build it. ICOs rarely get you any of those, let alone all of them.
How a simple tech upgrade at the IRS could transform the economy
I never heard of it until I released UnityShell. Funny how you can miss such big things. I'll look more into it.
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Please continue to stay steadfast in your approach in teaching mathematics and providing solutions. I bought your book, and love the fact you provide it freely online for all to use. Your approach addressed all of the concerns I had in my initial post and I see your book maintains mathematical rigor. This is honestly a breathe of fresh air. Thank you again. You are truly serving the ones that want to learn.
I totally agree with A16Z here. Blockchain skepticism is not hard to find on HN and beyond. First, the ecosystem is vast and evolving quickly. If you've "tuned out" by dismissing blockchain, then don't be surprised when your industry gets disrupted in 5-10 years. I think we'll begin to see business logic open-sourced on the blockchain. For example, existing SaaS model incentivizes closed-source, centrally managed repositories. For example, a CRM-focused blockchain might place the business logic for managing customer relations and sales on-chain and enable competing clients to build on the protocol. A CRM built in this way might enable multiple "thin clients" to build and an ecosystem to develop around it. I think we're a ways off, but that sort of thing is just one of the use-cases that excites me about it.
This is false, there have always been ways to get a free DV cert, lets encrypt made it easier

Furhter before Lets Encrypt you would not have gotten dinged by google, Google only went that path when wide spread DV Certs where freely avaliable

Further still, the minor costs per year to get a paid DV cert should be factor when choosing to host your own content versus paying a 3rd party to do it, many of those 3rd parties provided SSL as part of their services.

There is zero need for a Man in the Middle for SSL,
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I suspect it'll warn you if any of the accounts you've saved in Firefox (username/password) have been compromised. 1Password already does this¹ but this is likely the Firefox implementation of it.

¹ - https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/02/22/finding-pwned-password...
Thanks, I didn't realize they were planning for so high delta vees. They were fusion bombs in the end.
Docker adds unnecessary complexity, added insecurity, and the illusion that this is easier than just making a container by hand. It's insanity.
What's interesting is that an algorithm is presented as correct, but which blows up to quadratic behavior given the right input, and since since quicksort uses than tail recursion, could potentially cause a stack overflow. Thus you have a correct, safe algorithm in theory but not in practice.
Presumably the labels aren't coming from human's visual classification of the images.
Involved in large scale, long term solar testing in the past:

I was almost always better to let the rain clean the panels in the field, even in some pretty dusty and arid climates.

The deciding factor was usually the labor cost of the cleaning. (Think very depressed labor prices) Even then the risk of damage from the cleaning ops might sway away from manual cleaning.
Yeah, their zombie process argument is weak.

In theory, you are vulnerable because you've eliminated the zombie reaping mechanism.

In practice, the fact that you're running only one application allows you to make lots of simplifying assumptions so you can avoid getting into this situation quite easily. Just stick with a model where parents never exit before children (and always reap children). You don't need an adoptive parent if you never create orphans.

And even if it did happen, the resource consumption is tiny. Zombie processes free all their memory, close all their files, etc. The only remainder is a small data structure necessary to support stuff like the wait() call returning the process's exit status.
John Oliver is correct but the lack of publication of competing viewpoints is what defines US (Democrat) propaganda.

For example I’ve seen him state that the wage gap was 25%, straight face! that’s where the alternative viewpoints are sorely lacking and, when you learn the history of achors who have only questioned the credibility of this statistic, you can clearly say: Censorship is enforced with violence in USA.
Does it really matter if it's real, while attracting millions of real eyeballs? Pixar movies aren't real, and they attract millions of real people.
I have yo-yo'd, but I've done low carb more than I have CICO, and low carb is not sustainable at all for me- while day to day cravings went down, overall "hunger" feeling went up. Low carb made almost every meal feel unsatisfying. I have meals with more carbs now that are much more satisfying, while still losing weight. Low carb caused me to want to cheat, eat carbs again, etc.

CICO has been the easiest to "stick with", I can fulfill my cravings without regaining, because I'm not truly cutting anything out, just having less. When I want unhealthy snacks, instead of eating a bag of doritos, a fudge round, and a swiss roll, I have just the doritos and that's it. Moderation is key. I got to the point where I was basically bingeing food and not caring, which is a bad spot to be in.

The only reason I fell off of CICO once before was absolutely a decision on my part to "screw it, gonna eat what I want and however much I want because I love food, life is short" and really had nothing to do with regular here-and-there cravings. It was a conscious choice of food over health, as bad as that is. Before I made that choice, under CICO, I lost 40 pounds and kept that 40 pounds off with no problem, super easy to maintain.

Yes, I will admit that CICO causes me occasionally to choose a healthier food, because they're much less calorie dense- but day-to-day I still have bread, pasta, fruit, and sometimes dessert. I just add in some good, less dense things along the way, and overall eat less, while still enjoying it all. Seems to work. I guess time will tell, eh? :)
Being directly involved in the execution of the example you gave, I believe ML would be unnecessary and error-prone.

Even if successful, a system which could "interpret" a health record (such as a freetext note) using anything other than properly codified data would set the health industry back a decade. Moving doctors away from freetexting their notes is the only way to advance the industry.
Can someone explain how exactly does MS acquiring GitHub forces GitLab to move out from Azure? Like is it some kind of fear that Microsoft will meddle with the data or something?
> I want to learn Idris or any other purely functional programming language one day to the point where I would be able to read any program, but most programs written in those languages are so terse and abstract, that I constantly find myself lost in them.

Elm is purely functional and shares your design sensibilities on this.

It is less terse (by design) than other purely functional languages and (as of the upcoming release) does not support user-defined operators.

I know plenty of folks who got into Elm and then found Haskell and Idris much easier to approach, so it can unlock further learning too!

https://guide.elm-lang.org
> To assume those code bases don't contain bugs or go through multiple revisions and iterations is just naive.

To assume smart contracts don't go through multiple revisions is equally naive. Now we're arguing about implementation, anyway, which is not the point. Implementation and best practices can be iterated on. The fact that the ecosystem isn't mature yet isn't an argument against getting it there.
How is the premise of monte carlo analysis flawed because "of course multiplying together..."? Monte carlo is just a way to estimate the total distribution of the resulting drake probability given uncertainties about the other values. The resulting distribution they depict is just the distribution of outcomes according to our uncertainties. It's precisely bayesian using the empirical estimates according to the literature.
You certainly wouldn't want to mix and match used solar panels with an existing install. It would be necessary to keep them together in series and parallel configurations somewhat similar to how they were originally installed. Or to break them up into smaller groups of the same consistent age and resell them to offgrid builders (eg: a guy who wants 8 x 60-cell panels for his off grid cabin somewhere).

And yes shipping will be truly a pain in the ass. A brand new pallet of 20 or 22 panels with the special plastic protectors in place, and wrapped up with plastic, is easy to ship. Individual loose panels are difficult to transport loose without damaging them, and labor intensive to move around.

One of the things you can do with used panels is re-use them for off grid applications. There are off grid PV charge controllers now (Schneider, others) which support up to either 600V or 1000VDC on the PV input side, and up to 4800W of panels per charge controller. You can build strings that are basically all of the panels in series together, simplifying the wiring, assuming that the panels are new enough to be also rated for 600V (US) or 1000V (EU) spec, mostly intended for feeding big inverters.

I wouldn't really say that shipping dominates the cost just yet. I recently bought a pallet load of high-efficiency monocrystalline panels (72-cell, 360W) at around $0.62/watt. The shipping for the pallet was about $350. The panels themselves were about $4500 FOB.
See also: https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
If you’re an insider, there’s a somewhat big technical mistake in there that kind of undermines their credibility.

> Blockchain computers are new types of computers where the unique capability is trust between users, developers, and the platform itself.

Trusting somebody implies they’re in a position to hurt you, which makes it undesirable in a secure system. Unfortunately, trustless systems tend to be cumbersome and impractical. What makes Bitcoin interesting is precisely that it’s a remarkably practical system built on a trustless base.
I feel like there is some astroturfing going on with this post...
I've seen hobbyists/enthusiast groups get a van full of used panels for surprisingly cheap, which then was split between the members at meetups. Seems like people are happy to just see them gone, which makes sense if they're hard to reuse or repair at scale.
Can you expand on this or provide some source material for further reading? I find this a fascinating subject.
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Absolutely not. The state of blockchain development is shit. My point isn't that it's being done well. My point is that, in theory, it can be done well, and I believe that it can get there, and I think the end goal is worthwhile.
SOUP.ORG in the first domain.info file ... anyone know what that was? It now redirects to an actual soup place.
This paper exactly accounts for the increased uncertainty due to multiplying these factors together. It's unclear to me how that makes it invalid...
Great news. Let's hope the rest of the world catches up. Would be better if the ban included plastic straws, too.
Worse, if you leave without notice, you may be penalized (won't pay accrued vacation time, final paycheck etc). Further, you may be banned from working in the same field again, if you signed a non-compete.

So its symbolic in one sense - sure you can quit, but you can't do it without fallout.
Disclaimer: Work at Amazon and participated in the appeal process as one of the jury a while back.

The article clearly doesn't go into the process beyond what's on surface. When I participated both the manager and the employee wrote an initial document that would be shared with each other. These documents are the basis for the presentation. The employee had time to go through the manager's document and rebut each of the points their turn (as did the manager), so it seems slightly disingenuous to suggest that neither party has access to the other's claims.

During each parties presentation, they would go through the document and bring in supplemental evidence (which the other doesn't have access to).

The format I went in was:
Employee presents their document ->
Employee rebuts manager's document / Q&A ->
Manager presents their document ->
Manager rebuts other presentation / Q&A

The panel then has the option to bring back the employee for additional questions.

I'd be interested if/how the ordering of the presentations affected the panel.
This is not the same thing as state censorship and you know it.
Yep, it'll take time to converge on high assurance implementations of these schemes. But we will. It is possible to write bug free code, particularly for relatively well defined, small areas.
Fantastic. This is why we should support the EFF.
It's a dude with a comedy show on HBO. How is it 'clearly another attempt of propaganda directed at these countries'? It's not like he's on VOA every week.
If you really wanted to avoid dupes you could just hash the pics, save a list of hashes in a txt and then lookup against new ones, but it's less efficient than what OP proposes.
I really don't understand why you are being downvoted. I've been checking /r/investing for a while now and the general advice is to put all you have into the stock market (diversify) and HODL.

Everyone says there's no way the market can underperform on a longer run and you can't time it so don't bother. When someone brings back 2008 they downvote it to death and reply that it went back up so it will be all fine. When the market goes south just keep buying.

Japan would like to have a word with you.
The game even features YC!
Ask HN: Has anyone attended the YC program while on f1 student visa or OPT?
> The US is pretty unique in having absolute freedom of speech

Does hate speech against a religious community protected under freedom of speech in the US? Because my comment earlier was in that context.
True, but it's a hack. And as far as I can UDF still suffers from the unix permissions issue.
You're already operating from the cloud services perspective. Try 100 cloud servers is the same as 5 physical servers. Say 100 cloud servers runs your organization X dollar per month, plus the team of engineers to build out and operate there. For 1/4 of one month's cloud expense one can buy 5 servers that are the same hardware the cloud services are trickle renting you. With your month over month savings, you CAN afford those hard to find developers. Many of them are actually unemployed because everyone thinks they need to use the cloud - I've been able to pick them up for spot situations over my head for $15 an hour.
That's the problem you get with silo'd teams.

If they had a core technology team they could handle things like this more gracefully. Or maybe not, this is IBM after all.
I wonder if some of these establishments truly can't afford it, or they don't want to. It would seem MBA 101 to always reduce costs, and increases profits.
You can't pick that username—it's misleading, as shawn pointed out. I've banned this account, but if you want it unbanned you're welcome to email us (hn@ycombinator.com) with a username that's both neutral and available, and we'll change it for you.
I found out that Tesla's autopilot technology can't even really detect stationary objects. Albeit this is hard technically as it's actually a point of reference physics problem but the writing on the wall is clear: marketing departments are overpromising and no one is really delivering big on AI, not even Google as a lot of other companies have already matched their efforts (Microsoft, Waze, etc.). IBM? Give me a break.

Anyways, may I interest you in cheap VR headset?
I'm not surprised. My company seriously considered Watson when we were looking at AI platforms. Their sales team is pretentious, and when you scratch the surface their offering isn't all that different from Google.

Undoubtedly IBM has done amazing work popularizing AI with Jeopardy and the debate bot. However, I think that halo extended to its competitors that, frankly, offer more things developers really need.
The sentence you quoted was very precisely worded:

https://i.imgur.com/4n59IWT.jpg
> a CRM-focused blockchain might place the business logic for managing customer relations and sales on-chain and enable competing clients to build on the protocol

Why.. would you need to put those on a blockchain across a bunch of disparate consumers? In theory isn't my business logic fairly, you know, secret sauce?

Blockchain is vaguely "A spreadsheet everyone gets a copy of." There are some cases where that can be useful - usually for verification. There are also some issues with that - there are no takebacksies if somebody say, publishes illegal content.

If I want to prove to everyone in Minecraft that I hold a million minecraft points, a blockchain might be a good answer. If I want to store my secret, frequently updated business rules with tons of private details about my clients... why in the world would I use a blockchain?
I don't know if it was true when the article was written, but at least today some of what the author writes in http://catern.com/posts/docker.html#sec-4 is untrue.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/security/#linux-kern...
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That's cool:) It looks like this is how WINE works, too, if I read correctly (https://askubuntu.com/questions/146160/what-is-the-ptrace-sc...)
That's really interesting! I love the animated visualisation with the graph & starter. I bet you could use the same approach to watch how the dough grows while proving too.

I found out about this book set recently - http://modernistcuisine.com/books/modernist-bread/ which is written by an ex-CTO of Microsoft apparently.

It's a bit out of my price range at the moment though ;)
>You can’t call things that rustle your jimmies propaganda just like you can’t call news you don’t like fake.

I don't think that's a great analogy. Oliver is biased and he has never pretended to be a journalist. He presents stories he cares about from a specific viewpoint. The definition of propaganda is:

>information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Seems fitting. Just because you may agree does not make it any less propaganda. Essentially any narrative which is not 100% fact based and unbiased is technically propaganda.
He's done a lot (most?) of his shows in the same fashion denouncing US-based companies, policies, etc. It's about issues, not countries.
Ask HN: I want to study physics. Where should I start?
I have an interest in the works of Stephen Hawking and other theoretical physicists. I would like to study these topics to better understand their work and also to one day contribute myself. Where can I begin? Any book recommendations? A physics degree?

Thank you.
The word still carries that connotation in some places. The Center of Libertarian Culture, in my EU country, is left-wing anarchist.
I hope for all of our sakes that it's more profitable for a16z to invest in real blockchain startups and leverage their experience to uncover exciting, legitimate applications of the technology than it is to just day-trade cypto assets.
>For example I’ve seen him state that the wage gap was 25%, straight face! that’s where the alternative viewpoints are sorely lacking

I can't believe this "alternate viewpoints" bull is really propagating into the ether. He's either wrong or he's right. He either telling the truth, lying or ignorant.

A wage gap almost certainly exists, and can likely attributed to a number of factors backed up by factual research. "Alternate viewpoints" is a laughable reason to let anyone with a soapbox dump garbage into the ether.
That's why I specified a good quality fitness tracker like a Garmin Forerunner. If you use something cheap like a Fitbit then of course it won't be accurate.
There is also a lot of security theater in telecom/datacenter stuff to impress the rubes. The Switch datacenter in Las Vegas had armed guards with AR-15s and body armor for a while. Network engineers who visit and enter a lot of these facilities joke about it all the time.
I am no plasma physicist, but the concern I hear about fusion is that whenever we scale a system up we find the plasma is behaving in new ways, resulting in new loss mechanisms.

Identifying and understanding those new behaviours sounds more like science than engineering to me. (That said, scientists frequently do engineering and engineers frequently do science; I've been on both sides of it).
> If there is another “crypto winter,” we’ll keep investing aggressively.

This is how the good investors win. They have real definable thoughts of their own about technology. The truth is that most VCs aren't much more than bad money managers that chase other bad money managers around in circles.

It's not that VCs are stupid. It's that new technology is complex and very few people at all understand it. Even very good technologists can't understand more than a few areas with any level of expertise.

I really believe that decentralization will blow up the entire VC world itself but even this phenomenon will be a huge opportunity for some small number of VCs to profit from. Probably firms doing stuff like this.
I would prefer a server-less restaurant just so I don't have to worry about tipping. Reduction or elimination in wait staff may just appeal to the anti-tipping segment, which could have the intriguing result of increasing sales...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17391931
Specifically, what is presented here is a Keynesian view, right?
If you have specific concerns you are welcome to email them to hn@ycombinator.com, so we can look into it. But please don't break the site guidelines, which ask you not to post insinuations of astroturfing like this. (Such insinuations poison internet forums and most often turn out to be groundless. I've posted a ton about this if anyone wants to read more: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You can’t call things that rustle your jimmies propaganda

Didn't China do exactly this?
Are you trying to say that conservative media is a bastion of published opposing viewpoints? Serious question, do you have a reference for that? I’ve not found any in recent times. Not for nothing, it’s a comedy show that reports on the news. How that can be construed as propaganda is beyond me.
Essentially any narrative which is not 100% fact based and unbiased is technically propaganda.

So in your world is all news propaganda?
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Sweet. Betting Dwolla gets a chuck of that.