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True. Unfortunately I think that means ! just becomes very ambiguous since it's not precisely defined. ("Dangerous" means different things to different people.)
> so I sold PCs out of the biggest gray marketer in Seattle when the PC AT (second real computer for business) was coming out. I have first hand knowledge of the buying behavior because I was on the front lines of computer sales, and made a ton of good money selling $2-5K computers to people walking in off the street.

Which store? I'm wondering if my first PC may have come from you. :) I remember it was a place in Georgetown, a 386 that came with DR DOS.
Where does this size argument arrive from because it comes up consistently on USA v elsewhere arguments? 95th percentile densities are no more than europe. The population of USA is more than 30x Finland and we are talking about laser scanning (by EPA or equivalent)
Most music software has this… Reason, Logic, Garage Band, FL Studio, etc.
I've seen aggregate value measures which clearly demonstrate the EU as more protectionist.

It should also be pointed out that the EU has sugar tariffs which is why beet sugar is big in Europe.
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Right, but even if chess were infinite, we could still imagine an algorithm that would output the smallest explicit rule set that was consistent with all the games it had seen so far, and that would quickly (though how quickly?) converge on the correct rules in the case of chess, even if it would be up against undecidability when trying to do the same thing for a completely arbitrary game.
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if a student can't learn from a book, the have to first learn to learn from a book.
>> Google just doesn't have the talent, skills, or knowledge for dealing with business customers.
That is surprising, considering elsewhere in the casino people are using rolled dice for random number generation.
> With the GDPR in effect

GDPR is interpreted and enforced at the national level. I'm going to go ahead and assume the British data regulator won't rule against its own government.
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People need to stop abusing the term “engineering.” This is dungeons and dragons fantasy with s bit of math for color.
"In true Nakamoto style, it even includes a cryptogram, which purports to reveal names related to the title of the book."

This doesn't strike me as "Nakamoto style". He always seemed very professional and business-like.

The chance of this being the original Satoshi is 0%. If the original Satoshi is still alive, and he wanted to prove his existence, he could do so easily by moving any of his original coins, or by using his original PGP key.

But he's never done any of those things. Anyone claiming to be him without proof is just using his pseudonym for publicity. He's either dead, or Retired with a capital R.
Not bad, but this is still my all time fav Nürburgring lap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSMCfPASImQ
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There's a huge difference between tracking for building permits and opening an API to the world.

As an example -- in Seattle, sewer lines are still denoted with "sewer cards", digital images of pencil drawings on hundred-year-old paper. It is sufficient for sewer records, but utterly insufficient for OSM.
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> with the possible exception of Lattice stuff
> For Xilinx chips, where exactly nothing is publicly documented at the lower levels of the stack, they have to spend mountains of time re-discovering everything.

The situation with Lattice parts was the same; they reverse engineered them.
I am not the dude you talked to but I looked at your profile and I found multiple points of overlapping between your interests and mine.

I think that if I had known you IRL we would have been good friends. Or maybe sworn enemies because we might share interests but have really really different opinions on those things, to the point where we could not reconcile our differences :P

But I live in a different country all together so the point is kind of moot I guess. (I live in Norway.)
Since you have industry experience, consider adding some of your own war stories about how you learned certain things the hard way at the appropriate points in each lecture. You wouldn’t include these stories in the published material, but people will enjoy them, and the stories may help cement some of the lessons for some people.
My coworker is running a hosted affiliate tracking system on AWS as part of our company. He regularly has to deal with AWS wanting to pull our servers because of email spam -- not because we're sending spam emails, but because some affiliate link is in a spam email that resolves to our server, and Spamhaus complained to AWS.

Usually this can get handled after a few days of aggravating emails back and forth, we get our client to ban the affiliate in question, and move on with our days with no downtime. But a few weeks ago my coworker came in to find our server taken offline, because AWS emailed him about a spam complaint on a Friday night, and they hadn't gotten a response by Sunday. It'd been down for hours before he realized.

They'd just null terminated the IP of the server, so he updated IPs in DNS real quick, but he then spent half a day both resolving the complaint, and then getting someone at AWS to say it wouldn't happen again. They supposedly put a flag on his account requiring upper management approval to disable something again, but we'll see if that works when it comes up again.
> a gap between other similar cities like New York

London's murder rate recently topped New York's [1]. (Granted, it's probably a statistical fluke [2].)

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/04/03/londons...

[2] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/03/new-york...
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Having been in the selection in grande ecoles - and having been in one of those myself - EP is definitely a school of engineers and ens a school of researchers/professors. All of our teachers were from ens. Not that there aren't researchers in so or my own grande ecole but I have seen people refuse to go to ep to attempt and the next year. But those schools really are top notch, each in their own way.
Rolled dice are audited to ensure they are fair, the manufacture of such dice is pretty strictly controlled.

It's hard to cheat with such dice without the cheating becoming obvious after a number of rolls.

But for slot machines - essentially special purpose computers - such cheating would be trivial and hard to detect. And so regulators made sure that you don't have the 'but it's random' excuse for a machine that never pays out.
No, the forwarder has to re-send the message with different envelope information.
Where are these charged screens coming from? Is it possible to just magically have charged screens that remain at the same charge regardless of all interactions or am I seeing a place where someone has to bring their own ions?
I think the issue is that there’s a kind of Jim Crow discrimination if we try to act as if “technical” is a valid filter for whether someone is recognized as making a clear contribution. If women are less likely to make technical contributions, and we only recognize technical contributions, then we’re de facto minimizing crucial contributions of women.

Also, what does “technical” even mean? Why is setting up the legal structure of a company non-technical but writing HTML for the web site is technical?

Sometimes I wonder if non-technical is just a slur.
"Bloomberg News couldn’t independently verify the authenticity of the post or excerpt."

Yes, they can. If Satoshi uses one of his signing keys to sign it, then you can verify it is them. If they don't, then you can't. It couldn't possibly be easier.

Seriously, how many hobby train enthusiasts and Crocodile Dundee Nakamotos are going to show up before tech journalists learn how crypto signatures work?
> Is it appropriate to rank extremely high for something you're directly opposed to?

I'd say that's an important question, which I would answer with "yes", so long as it's understood that "rank extremely high" doesn't imply "at the exclusion of all others".

> should sites enlightening the user on why it is murder, instead of providing useful information, be presented front and center

Possibly. Though, I fear you may have presented a strawman (while betraying which way you, personally, are "polarized" on abortion).

The question of what is useful information depends entirely on the keywords the user entered. Just the single word "abortion" could easily, reasonably, be understood to mean a request for information of general interest on the topic, including moral implications. On the other hand, it would be a stretch to expect that someone would want, say, instructions on how better to administer sedation during the procedure, absent additional keywords.

Of course, there are going to be searches like "get an abortion" that are far more ambiguous than "get an abortion in my area", but I think it's better for something like a search engine (or government or society for that matter) to err on the side of inclusion than suppression.

> Certainly Google could decide whether it is appropriate on a case-by-case basis, but at that point it starts to be very explicitly political

Indeed, and that's a can of worms they likely don't want or need to open.
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This has been my experience as well. The several younger people I know (high school age) also use it. I was told they use instagram for general posts, and snapchat for communicating.
We’re already starting a trade war with them over unfair business practices, and one could argue this incident would fall under that. What else do you want to see? Bombs and missiles?
Yes, there is a risk there. You need to make sure that you put some phrase in there indicating that the student's answer wasn't really right. Just saying "that's one way to think about it" without clarifying that it's not quite correct for reason X will definitely do more damage than good.

The trick is telling them they're wrong without making it sound like you are calling them stupid.
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That's pretty awesome. Varnish is my go to for Rails apps (and almost always necessary).
So, MUCH luckier than previously thought? ;-)
No, let’s replace law of excluded middle with axiom of adversarial choice.
Exactly. The whole point of using AWS, Google Cloud, etc, is that you get to stop thinking about certain classes of problems. An infrastructure provider that is unreliable cancels most of the value of using them for infrastructure.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a semi full of harddrives."
The institutions GP suggested do have that role are significantly cheaper.
Seconding this.

I've met some people who have had a lot of interaction (only over text) with Satoshi back in the early Bitcoin days, and they believe he's looking to escape publicity as much as possible. The only reason Satoshi would write a book is to subtly point the finger at someone else being Satoshi.
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Well, it definitely wasn't added in a later edit, or at least, not that I'm aware of, though I do have a tendency to write my comments out in bits submitted piece-by-piece. Even so, I wouldn't worry about it, I tend to miss whole blocks of text with alarming regularity while reading through stacks of pdfs and when comparing notes with colleagues we always wonder if we've been reading the same documents (they have the same problem...). Reading in parallel is our way of trying to ensure we don't miss anything and unfortunately it is not a luxury.

Often the effects are more subtle, reading what you think something said rather than what it actually said, or missing a negation or some sub-clause that materially alters the meaning of a sentence.

Even in proofreading we find stuff that is so dead obvious it is embarrassing. On the whole visual input for data is rather unreliable, even when reading stuff you wrote yourself, which I find the most surprising bit of all.

Studying this is interesting, and to some extent important to us due to the nature of our business, missing critical info supplied by a party we are looking at could cause real problems so we have tried to build a process to minimize the incidence of such faults, even so I'm 100% sure that with every job we will always miss something, and I live in perpetual fear of that something being something important.
HODL

If anyone thinks this isn't here to stay, write about it on your floppy disks.
I'd just like to take this opportunity to praise Vultr. I've been using them for years and their support has always been good, and contrary to every other growing company, has been getting better over time.

I had an issue with my servers 2 days ago and I got a reply to my ticket within 1 minute. Follow-up replies were also very fast.

The person I was talking to was a system administrator who understood what I was talking about and could actually solve problems on the spot. He is actually the same person who answered my support requests last year. I don't know if that's a happy accident or if they try to keep the same support staff answering for the same clients. He was answering my requests consistently for 2 days this time.

I am not a big budget customer. AWS and GCP wouldn't think anything of me.

Thank you Vultr for supporting your product properly. And thanks Eric. You are very helpful!
There's nothing original there that can't be found in the Mike Hearn emails [1] and other writings by Satoshi. It's also suspicious that this "Satoshi's" opinions just happen to agree with one side of the ongoing political debates between BTC/BCH. I call fake.

1. https://plan99.net/~mike/
> deficit reduction programme

Your link just explains that they’re trying to reduce the gap between tax income and expenditure, but the absolute level of expenditure (my link) has gone up every year (in real terms too)!
Not the same spirit : ENS is more research and less engineering.
I have a similar story. I submitted a ticket to increase my GPU quota. Then my account was suspended, because CSR think the account is committing fraud. At that moment, I have a valid payment method and have been using GCP for a couple of weeks. Only after I prepaid $200 and uploaded a bunch of documents including credit card pictures and ID pictures, my account was restored.

You heard me right, I prepaid them so that my account can be restored.

I miss AWS sometimes...
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>We’re already starting a trade war with them over unfair business practices

Technically you've started a trade war with everyone so it's hard to determine whether unfair business practices are the real reason or not.
Eh, more often than not, it's pretty clear who at least one of the authors of the paper is by just looking at what they cite. Double blind review is not a foolproof system of avoiding creds and appeals to authority.
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Would the people who go to casinos find alternative, perhaps more dangerous means to gamble if they didn't exist?
National security is exempt from GDPR :)
Thats likely because sex workers are being banned from centralized social media services and censorship is difficult on a federated network such as Mastadon.
Not sure if it'll help, since I don't have any teaching experience, but coming at this from the perspective of a student, thinking of what your students might be thinking given what they're saying:

First, "not dry" doesn't necessarily mean "not prepared" or "spontaneous". Consider things like the SR-71 story [1] or the unprotected VNC endpoints presentation [2].

Second, keep in mind what you can give students that they can't get from a textbook or another lecture that they find on youtube. The best professors I had weren't the ones that could quote the textbook; the best professors I had were the ones that could provide context for the textbook, or tell stories that illustrated important edge cases or institutional knowledge that isn't written in any textbook. There's a huge amount of wisdom that could never be "professional" enough to make it into a textbook but is nevertheless fantastic for helping a student understand or remember the material. For example, consider the "Things I Won't Work With" series; would never get past a textbook review committee, but absolutely riveting on top of the information transfer.

Third, and finally, how these relate to helping students absorb knowledge. Consider spaced repetition and the method of loci [4] and what they mean about how the human brain forms knowledge: People remember networks of knowledge, not single facts. That's why I cite war stories above - giving students a story to wrap around an idea lets them link to it from multiple angles, each one reinforcing the memory or giving the brain a second or third chance to successfully record it. Interactive discussions are the same way; remembering a monologue is much harder than remembering the same information packaged as a socratic dialog with a few good jokes thrown in. That's why everyone else is recommending question-and-answer sessions and cold-calling; human memory is better at handling conversations than it is at speeches.

[1] https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-10791270..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY
[3] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
I will have to disagree with the article on this, really it is 2-way. When searching for a new apartment you will have way more choice in the weeks around July 1st than at any other time of the year.
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I realize it's partially rhetorical, but I keep saying to the people who are trying to shove this onto us, "You first."

Police still fight wearing and using body cams. Governments are becoming more obstreperous, recalcitrant, and outright -- and arguable, illegally -- uncooperative with respect to Freedom of Information Act and other like document production procedures and requests.

It seems, the powers that want this, want no aspect of this "transparency" for themselves.

I'd like to see a private initiative and cameras take to tracking the elite and the "nothing to hide" people.

Their actions and behavior already tell me, that they have plenty to hide.

Let's see them "live their everyday life", as they've known it, in the face of relentless tracking and "accountability".
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That may have been true 10 or 20 years ago, but YKK is not the biggest zipper supplier any more. That honor goes to SBS, a Chinese company.
> Practically, it is much easier to build a large scale application in clojure

There is a vast amount of evidence that shows the opposite. Most of the code bases you use on a daily basis today, such as Google, Amazon, eBay, etc... are built on Java.

Very few (if any) are built on Clojure.
They more likely didn't read past the first sentence. I suspect a very thin skin.

Seriously though, I don't know what makes this forum tick. Someone's gotta explain what is socially acceptable around here. I know we're not supposed to complain about votes here, but I genuinely don't understand what happened. (Or rather, what is happening, the votes seem to flow up and down for no discernible reason.)
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>People who say soft skills are dead

Are you sure people actually say that? This struck me as odd because it seems to be the total opposite of what people say. It seems virtually everyone stresses "soft skills" repeatedly.

But I have no proof of this so I just did a quick search of Google's 130 trillion pages to try and get a sense if people out there are really saying that soft skills are useless:

"soft skills are dead": 3 results (and 2 of them happen to be from you in this thread): https://www.google.com/search?q="soft+skills+are+dead"

"soft skills are useless": 7 results : https://www.google.com/search?q="soft+skills+are+useless"

"soft skills are worthless": 4 results : https://www.google.com/search?q="soft+skills+are+worthless"

"soft skills are in demand": 43000 results : https://www.google.com/search?q="soft+skills+are+in+demand"

"soft skills in demand": 94000 results : https://www.google.com/search?q="soft+skills+in+demand"

Also, on HN... In the top 3 threads with "soft skills" in the title, the comments all emphasize the importance of soft skills: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=soft%20skills&sort=byPopularit...
> These cloud hosting companies don't make this a natural evolution though, because there's no human to talk to

This is not true at all. Once you start spending real money on GCP or AWS, they will reach out to you. You will probably sign a support contract and have an account manager at that point. Or you might go with enterprise support where you have dedicated technical assets within the company that can help with case escalation, architecture review, billing optimization, etc.
... thus they couldn’t verify. Im not sure you realize but you’re making their point.
The more I watch the crypto space, the more I observe that it has developed an inherently misaligned set of incentives. The people who are creating headlines for each new approach are the ones who have already bought in and will benefit most from others being convinced of its value and buying in as well. Just like it took decades for it to be common for personal financial advisors to be fiduciaries, I wonder if there is space for "experts" who commit to not having a stake in any crypto and just commenting on which ones seems to be creating real technological value. I might support a patreon for that. Of course, anonymity on the blockchain would make it hard to "trust" that these "experts" were really unbiased.

P.S. I know crypto is better used to refer to cryptographic technology as a whole, but referring to this area as "cryptocurrency" is insufficient since many are trying to move beyond being currencies, and "blockchain" is insufficient because many are trying alternatives to the basic blockchain introduced by bitcoin.
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In Washington State, nearly all of the counties provide daily or weekly data exports for lot lines, streets and more. OSM regularly imports this data, but if you go much outside Seattle and are using Google Maps, prepare for a rubbish experience, as Google hasn't bothered to source the data directly from the counties (thus there are many missing and incorrectly drawn roads in the San Juans) and they're relying on a 3rd party vendor that is running a few years behind on pulling county data.

To put this in perspective, in Kitsap county alone they've renumbered nearly 300k lots over the past few years. Google Maps doesn't get those new addresses or road names until its trickled down through USPS (who they're required to notify) then eventually to their data vendor, leaving you with a spotty patchwork of places that Google users have updated to the correct addresses.

Google had a good strategy with sourcing user contributions, but pulling the public domain data that is offered freely for download and is literally the canonical source isn't hard, a small team can manage it for OSM, why is Google paying a 3rd party vendor that gives them trash instead of the latest data?