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A friendly introduction to Kubernetes – freeCodeCamp
Apple Releases iOS 11.4.1 which blocks police password cracking tools
Measuring perceived video quality on mobile devices
You don't understand marginal improvements and how they ramp up?
I'd have liked to have seen more specifics on which cultures were which. I've experienced the drinking cultures from India, Japan, China, France, the US, Argentina, Brazil, and England and in ALL of them drinking alcohol was correlated with what they called "disinhibition" and aggression.

The amounts of each of these things varied, but it's not like it was ever fully absent. So basically, is this is a dependency on cultural norms separate from everything else or does alcohol correlate with any specific about economic development that makes people behave this way?
Didn't someone just recently post a DQN solution for Montezuma's Revenge (the game that according to this article they cannot solve)?

> "Though DQN is great at games like Breakout, it is still not able to tackle relatively simple games like Montezuma's Revenge"

Yep:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/09/google-deepmind-ai-monte...

https://blog.openai.com/learning-montezumas-revenge-from-a-s...

It's far too early in this research to say what exactly what can and can't be solved by RL.
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No, not at all, it's just that a proper optical setup is totally insulated from the surroundings so that a truck moving by 100 yards from your house doesn't wreck your carefully calibrated set-up.

Which usually translates into a lot of mass with as much vibration isolation as you can get.

And that in turn translates into large bins filled with sand (if you want to do this on the cheap).

And that in turn means you will most likely have to re-inforce your floor if you are in an ordinary building.

The best places to do work like this are in the middle of nowhere and away from any major roads. Even footsteps can be a problem for long running experiments where coherence is required.

It is a ton of fun though, and you will learn a lot.
It's commonly given to women who have had repeat miscarriages, like my wife. However, her doctor also prescribes it after birth for women with PPD, because it has been shown to alleviate the symptoms, and I imagine that if my wife were to present with that, she would be put on it.

It's also common to give it to women who have short luteal phases and want to conceive.
I now feel like debuggers are a design smell. I've used them less and less (to the point of not having to use them at all) as I've coded more test-first and designed things to be smaller (lower logic depth, etc.) I mean, all a debugger is, really, is a window into dynamic state, so if you control the, let's just call it what it is, the "rampant dispersion of state" at all times, you end up not needing a debugger (and producing fewer bugs) IMHO.

Now I'm sure that kernel-level stuff wasn't designed like this, and probably won't be for some time (I'm hoping Rust changes that story, but not a low-level coder), so debuggers may still be necessary- just making a point that it seems possible to design in such a way that the need for one is drastically reduced, if not eliminated. Or at least, that's how it seems to me in high-level-language-land (things may differ at the assembly and C levels).

EDIT: I apologize for OT, probably not the ideal place to start a "are debuggers really necessary if you design code correctly?" discussion, after all this is part 3 of a series, my bad
It doesn’t matter, it still implies time travel. Use the wormhole acceleration-return thought experiment as an example. If you can leave point A and arrive at point B before light could, it doesn’t matter if you took a shortcut.
Not at all. The Soviet Union was a self-proclaimed multi-ethnic state that was only Russian in the sense that the Russian soviets were the largest and dominated political life.
You're absolutely right! Those are all wonderful, laudable, humane, compassionate and beautiful goals! We should all work towards them for the good of humanity.

Where is that future? Like all such things, it lives exclusively in the realm of the fever-dreams of radicals who focus on dreams.

The future is what we build it to be. When discussion and ideology is emphasized above building a future, then the future we get is the one produced by the builders. This is pretty much never the future the dreamers wanted. It's possible that there may be some lessons in there around the power of discussion to bring forth the goals desired.

We've had an ongoing discussion about real radical ideas for generations now. Personally, I've about had it with radicals and their pure, beautiful goals untroubled by interactions with nasty, dirty reality. I much prefer to see what can actually be built to discussions of lofty goals.
This is the best I can do right now. It isn't where I originally read it but google is failing me. https://creativestrategies.com/voice-assistant-anyone-yes-pl...

What it comes to is the people on HN don't represent most people using iPhones.
> FTL implies time travel

I've heard that many times now, but I'm not sure I fully understand it. So, could someone ELI5 how, given a starship equipped with a warp drive (or in range of a series of cleverly put stable wormholes), how can I give myself winning lottery numbers, and meet my great-great-grandfather?
Thanks for sharing, Khoa
This is a weirdly shallow article containing lots of diagrams and bullet points to just summarize the known points that RL needs a lot of data and needs to learn from scratch.

No mention of all the ongoing work in learning from demonstrations, or more generally incorporating any off-policy knowledge. Vague speculations about the philosophy of model free learning. Not really worth the read (as someone working in RL).
APPLE RELEASED iOS 11.4.1 THAT BLOCKS TOOLS USED BY POLICE TO CRACK PASSCODES
A guide on how to get a software eng job at Google and other top tech companies
Chrome developer tools to master
Well, I don't know about talented but I assume they did very well in school to get in.

Assuming they let you in at all, top universities tend to be pretty generous with financial aid.
I took it as a normative justification. Lots of companies out there looking to get capital, why should I give it to you? Are you going to do something useful with it or are you just going to fritter it away?
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Running kleroteria for free by abusing free tiers
Show HN: Newsletter in Presentation format
Well understood by whom?

- Founders?

- Venture Capitalists?

- Startup Employees?

- Internet commenters from all over the world?

- All of the Above?
> 15 years ago my computer had 128MB RAM and I was browsing the web at approximately the same rate.

You probably weren't; perceptions of speed are often based on expectations set by experience, and your expectations were probably a lot lower then. If you actually could go back and browse the web of 15 years ago and the sites you could then, you would be disappointed, but the speed then was similar scaled to the expectations you had then as the speed now is scaled to your current t expectations. So your perception of the speed is similar.
:) It's used in everything from elementary schools to freshman-level university courses. The sentences can be a bit complex but the plotting is very simple, which I hope struck a good balance so as to appeal to a wide range.
The tests are especially made for ICE cars. Tesla is electric.
Can it be made not to show WebGL, embedded video, and so forth? I enjoy a very serene internet using w3m set to monochrome, with mouse and images turned off. Every now and then it's necessary to use a graphical browser, and it's the sensory equivalent of being woken up by a toddler at 5:30 on Christmas morning.
You're conflating contributing with some sort of subjective utilitarian type view. People want drugs, drug barons facilitate their availability - this is a substantial and highly productive contribution to society. To emphasize how arbitrary value systems can be, you might consider an opera singer to be contributing to society. But they're providing the exact same product to society that a footballer does - entertainment.

But back on the scientists, poverty was not just the wrong word - it was the wrong idea. Most of the people you listed lived lives as pleasant as they desired and could have retired in complete comfort at various points in their career. Of course that would not make these sort of people happy. Instead they mostly lived normal lives (in terms of standard), and put their money back into furthering their research and in many ways right back into society.

The same is true, though in a different way, for Bezos. He will likely never, in his entire life, spend more than a tiny fraction of a percent of his wealth on himself and his family. The vast majority of it will end up going back to society working to do his part to try to bring humanity into the space age. This isn't to say he lives modestly, but rather it exposes an interesting difference. When most people think of being a billionaire most don't think of what they could create, instead they think of what they could buy. Yet the former mindset creates wealth and the latter destroys it.

When Bezos was in his teens he worked one summer at a McDonalds. He hated it. The next summer decided to found the 'Dream Institute' which was a 10 day camp for younger kids. He only got 6 signups, but at $600 a child he probably earned vastly more than he did at McDonalds and provided a great service to society at the same time. No doubt his idea was heavily incentivized by money and that's the beautiful thing about our system. When you create things, you tend to be rewarded. And on that note, I'm going to dodge the banker issue. I do agree with you there and while productivity tends to be rewarded, it's not an exclusive relationship. E.g. - those that are nonproductive can also find substantial reward at times. However, I think the issue with banks is far more complex than 'they create [and profit from] recessions so they're bad' or 'they lend money to create businesses so they're good'.
Note: there are multiple pages to the post, which have the benchmarks.
Steam locomotives could only travel a fixed distance (limited by locomotive design at the time, which in turn was limited by physical constraints of the track) before running out of water and coal and needing to be turned around. The train would then be detached from one locomotive and passed on to the next one - very much like changing horses in a preindustrial mail dispatch relay.

Refueling, refilling water, turning around, and performing needed regular maintenance to keep the locomotive in running order was very difficult without a specially prepared site - the depot. Without depots, you could get a train 80 km down the line, but then you were stuck without the ability to immediately hand the train off to the next locomotive.
I asked the same thing on Reddit a couple weeks ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/graphql/comments/8ta67c/anyone_usin...

So far in dev, I love it. Haven't pushed to production yet though.
Unless of course that violates the terms of service.
Communication is a two-way street. A word becomes meaningful when the recipient is able to understand the author through it; if there is no such consensus, then the word can't be said to mean anything.
Here's a survey that might be interesting to you: https://www.itif.org/files/2011-impact-regulation-innovation...

I can't promise that there isn't some bias in one direction or another, I just found it interesting, and the conclusion is very pithy.
More about the Western Front, but Hardcore History does a fantastic job there.
It's "not logical" only from certain poorly considered priors that have very little to do with how humans work. Emotions aren't supposed to be "logical". Emotions are part of the biological machinery that keeps meat-machines alive and active in the world.
Hi, I unsure if this qualifies as "Show" as the rules state that "Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.".

And although it is not a blog post, it is very close to it.

Nevertheless, if somebody could spare a few minutes and say whether reading it in presentation format (accompanied with the text if necessary) is better than just the text it would help me out a lot.

Best
One man's "placed in designated spots" is another man's "dumped on the side of the road"

I honestly think we are just used to seeing idle cars all over the place that we don't "notice" them. There's no reason scooters won't be able to "blend in" in the same way over time.
> I can't even explain how foreign it is to think that people raise and exhaust millions of dollars without finding product market fit.

This equates to about 18 months of operating time in SF. When you talk about it in terms of time instead of dollars, 18 months doesn't seem like long at all. Certainly not enough time to find product market fit in many cases if you start out with only a vague idea.
I don’t think there is a true ELI5 answer, at least, I can’t think of one. The basic concept involves general relativity, and while there are ways to simplify it (i.e. no math) it’s still complicated. This does an ok job:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/128075/how-would...

Better job, but less accessible: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52249/how-does-f...

The classic version involving FTL ships: http://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2016/8/25/why-ftl-implies-ti...

A little math, but useful because it applies to the ability to send signals FTL, regardless of means: https://www.quora.com/Why-would-traveling-faster-than-light-...
That's a silly argument. They have to be connected to the streets, unless you want to limit parking to off-road 4WD vehicles. They're adjacent to the street.
Yeah, We present prices on hourly basis and you can spin up pods in matter of seconds. Actually we will try to reach them and see if partnership can make our services even cheaper, thanks for pointing this out.
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I tend to be of the mindset that over the long term, you are going to get a good perspective if you approach the problem 50/50. Apply randomness half the time, apply the knowledge you know the other half. Divide and conquer, sort of.

Randomness potentiates the space that you will both be able to identify error and consequently, find mistakes, find errors in reasoning (Monte Carlo simulations are traditionally used for this sort of thing). The other good thing with randomness as well, find ways to see errors as being 'not errors', e.g. a tool that can be developed, structured, a new way to see the problem, a creative approach. Some melding between the two seems to be something of significance for an AI. So you don't want it to be all random, because you need stability, structure, you need a 'language' or an 'awareness' you understand that isn't so chaotic and constantly changing that you can't even find a place to put your feet on the ground.

It doesn't have to be a perfect 50/50 balance, because that has it's own set of problems - divide and conquer all the divisions and you still wind up with 2^n newly defined problem spaces to interpret, possibly losing sight of the bigger picture or maintaining independent direction in one focused lineage of all those spaces. Just very generally, maintain balance, because the world is chaos sometimes.

It's like a stream of information. All the analysis to all of that space is meaningless if the context changes enough. So, adapt to a new context.

Honestly though, I don't know what I'm trying to say much of the time, aside, 'help', lol. Life is terrifying. :)
Artificial neural network made out of DNA
Still some time yet, try recovering young Geoffrey Hinton from the photo from 2011 or so. However, once we can only train for and tweak such knobs, it's going to get real IMO.
I worked with a guy who contracted with them in the 90s — he laughed that they flew him cross country every two weeks as a contractor to attend a staff meeting
> I was raised to do as I was told, sit quietly and speak when spoken to in company. It did me no harm whatsoever ….

How could you possibly know?
Right: falsifying evidence leaves its own trails, and the likelihood of something being falsisfied can be investigated.
OK, touche - it's true that an Alcubierre drive could be used for time travel, but it's not necessarily implied, whereas it is for an object actually travelling beyond the speed of light. The discoverer of the method itself [0] (Miguel Alcubierre ) believed that chronology protection [1] would prevent time travel, as the spacetime bubble would destroy itself somehow.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_protection_conjectu...
Please don't break the site guideline which asks you to "avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents". Your comment would be fine without the last sentence. Whether it is right or wrong, it's likely to lead to a repetitive flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Do you have product market fit or not? If not, save as much money as you can, spend more time with your customers, and build a product they need.

I'm still waiting for the tech VC world to unilaterally agree on what "product market fit" is.
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> Personally I think...

I recommend you first familiarize yourself with the subject. People are generally misinformed about this subject but feel obligated to opine on it before doing due dilligence, for some reason.
Investment corp I work for got notified EOS did not pass verification, drops -7%
Ouch!
It provides an avenue for League financials to leak out and exposes just how much money the league and owners take in for revenue. If the team was owned by individual, the owners would likely keep those numbers a secret. They don't want the fans to know that the owners can easily foot the bill(s) and fund their own stadiums.
I won't be able to invoke human intervention from otherwise ignorant service providers.

Twitter is my fastline to customer support.
Patriotic etymologically has the same meaning, and bears much more sense in the context.
Looking at his CV, Dr. Alan MacDonald seems like a serious scientist (https://durayresearch.wordpress.com/about-2/background/curri...), but it seems mainstream medical circles have ignored his revelations so far.
The other intersting comment in the article related to the possible loading of Russian trains. The less confined operating areas meant loads could be wider.
This sounds like yet another appearance of the tank-sky problem.
The author had no idea what they were doing with kdb.

They even admit that they couldn't be bothered to modify their ingestion scripts to not partition their data.
China producing x86 chips nearly identical to AMD server processors
It is defined in the linked blog post and I believe it's a pretty good definition.

“The customers are buying the product just as fast as you can make it — or usage is growing just as fast as you can add more servers. Money from customers is piling up in your company checking account. You’re hiring sales and customer support staff as fast as you can.”
Thats how primates think. Are we not going to progress beyond that logic?
It's like some people take "optimize last" to the extreme. A project needs to handle anticipated load at the beginning.

For example, if a web application needs to handle 20,000 requests an hour, it's okay if early versions take 10-15 seconds to respond under unusually high load. The optimization phase can bring that down to something more manageable.

Some people take the "optimize last" so far that they ignore their basic scalability requirements; or just assume there are no scalability requirements. That's when a more senior dev needs to step in and demand basic scalability in the design.
> It is nice to be able to put 4x more GPUs online in a few hours instead of a day, but I am not sure it commands a 33% premium except in very specific marginal cases.

I suspect that, in general, it commands an even higher price premium, as irrational as that may seem (or actually be).

This particular business is based off the notion of fixed budgets (and, presumably, short time limits), which means that, no matter how much cheaper over all it is to rent resources for a full month, it's worth the premium to rent as much as you can for a result in 10 days.

This reasonining can apply to an early startup, too (in terms of time-to-market and unpredictable scalability), but it becomes actually-irrational when it's not re-evaluated and a huge premium [1] is being paid for routine, easily-predictable infrastructure sourced from cloud providers.

[1] hundreds of percent, i.e. multiples
Exactly. It's not like the author is saying, "The cat is on the red table."
They work great as long as you have a source of heat and a good radiator. You don't need mass as a heat sink.
No, I hadn't seen that paper; thanks! I don't want to comment on it without having studied it, except to mention that it doesn't make any reference to Forrelation.
> My in laws do this thing were children are mostly ignored. When adults are talking or watching tv, the adults should not be interrupted. In practice they ignore other adults most of the time too. Very boarish, dysfunctional people in general.

Surely these two (ignoring children for adult conversation and ignoring other adults) do not always go together, and need not be conflated. My wife, who is Italian, told me that, in the European model of parenting with which she is familiar, children are expected to defer to adult conversations.

While I have no children, I see no reason that this couldn't have a positive effect, analogous to that of not being an only child—whereby children learn that, though they are important and valued, their desires do not always come first, and they need to learn to be respectful of others. Your comment seems to suggest, by contrast, that it is obviously and necessarily a poor way to raise children.

(I also don't think that ignoring other adults, at least in some circumstances where they want my intention, is necessarily a bad thing, but that's probably more a factor of my bias towards being alone than of any parenting philosophy.)
Duckduckgo is slow for me as well. I stopped using it because of this.

If you're looking for an alternative to Google that is faster than duckduckgo, try Bing.
It is still slow, but faster than duckduckgo.
It is obvious why the US would want to appear invulnerable. You claimed it tried to. I asked for proof. You didn't provide it.
Recently started mine: https://ondjuric.com

Can’t wait to see others. :)
Can anyone suggest any other good curl-able datasets for other domain areas?
That interview was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17475413.
Computers are a tool of Automation. A seasoned engineer can build amazing things that does the work of many humans. Not only that 10X developers don’t work 10X hard, they are able to solve 10x problems with 1X effort because of their domain experience and approach to problem solving.

This kinds of people are hard to find. It’s a terrible business decision not to pay them well because their ROI is multiple times their salaries.

They are also very rarely on the market sending out resumes. Mostly because they get jobs mostly via friends of friends and referrals.

But I do agree a 100%, we should be getting paid more. If you’re not getting paid enough, look for other opportunities. There are plenty.

The tech industry has never been as profitable as it is now. We are in a huge tech boom right now. AppAmaGoogMsft are all poised to be the first trillion dollar corporations.
Not a single proven data breach. All claims are based on downloaded aadhar data by third party. But they do need to step up their security game.
Reminds me of the Ocean's 12 (13?) scene where the brothers are in the boring machine and are manipulating the stolen FBI mugshots to disguise the group members before they get found out.