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34. Learning Economics. Reading Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw . I didn't take a course in Economics while in college and am trying to make up for it and build a better understanding of how the world operates.

I finished the Machine Learning specialization offered by UWash on Coursera a few months back, but I am not happy with my grasp on the subject and plan to dive deeper with a project and few books in next few months.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/false-paternit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event#Rates_of_n...
I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. Postmodern architecture is an actual thing; architects do not regard it as "so vague as to be utterly meaningless". There are famous postmodern buildings. Your last sentence amounts to the declaration that we'd have had postmodernism even if postmodernism never began a thing. Sure, I agree, it would have a different name. What's your point?

I feel like maybe your problem is that you're just not very familiar with what postmodernism means in art, architecture, literature, film, and music.
HN has already collapsed this particular thread. When I want to go look for it, I have to uncollapse it. This isn't the venue for this kind of discussion. I recognize the wish to remain public, but unless you can find a better public venue, this is my last reply.

What we're laboring under here is the lack of available information bandwidth necessary to communicate ideas. The textual medium is basically dialup. Ideally I'd talk with you over in person and we can work out our differences that way. Over beers or coffee or whatever. It simply takes a lot of time to share experience.

For us to do this over a textual medium, a certain amount of respect has to be present. Because I have to want to keep proceeding with the discussion. I absolutely can give you examples of transcendent truths and what I mean by multiple universes. But it takes time to communicate all that.

All of your questions, I can answer. But it sounds to me like you're just wanting validation of your preformed conclusion about what I'm trying to communicate.

Maybe I'll get a little deeper before I sign off.

No. On second thought I won't. You don't seem able to appreciate it. I'm not here to entertain you.
Folks that are 48 now are some of the first to grow up with PCs in the classroom and are as savvy or more savvy than folks entering the workforce. They're just now finding that folks born after the 2007 introduction of the iPhone are becoming unfamiliar with keyboards, a still very necessary technology. That leads me to think that there's likely a rolling window and that we'll start to see increasing discrimination and exploitation on the other end in a few years time.
WTF? That's really sad. I worked with him (and others in the Bugzilla community) when I was a contributor for a short time. I hope he went peacefully, and I wish all the best for those he left behind.
An IVF mixup is another...

Or a kid who was unknowingly raised by their grandparents is an example where you’d see both parents misattributed.
I saw one at EAA Airventure 1991. It was flanked by armed guards and, if I recall properly, portions were covered with tarps. It was quite a thing to see. The guard detial definitely made for a vivid memory.
I haven’t tested this idea, but what about using a regular smartphone, and simply uninstall or not enable most of the features?

Don’t want to be distracted? Turn off notifications. Don’t want access to email? Don’t set up the email account.
Can you remove the preinstalled FB/Twitter apps?
> Safety and performance are what they compete on

The original iPad was rendered unsupported after 2 years on the market. At that point, the lack of software updates combined with inevitable unknown security vulnerabilities mean that Apple's model actually generates a safety hazard.

It's common for Android hardware to become unsupported after 2 years, but the degree of success of cyanogenmod and postmarketos (and now project treble) demonstrate that there is a better way.

As time passes, an iPad's unknown vulnerabilities become known. Similarly, the scenarios and environs in which a Tesla is driven also change unpredictably.

Apple and Tesla can't support their designs indefinitely and remain profitable. The ethical solution is either don't sell the product (rent it out instead) or simply allow owners to accept the maintenance burden.
Internet Voting? Really? – Andrew Appel – TEDxPrincetonU
Not really sure I trust BLU after that whole previous incident. They were ok with sending that data back before... too bad as the R 1 HD was a great backup phone IMO.
If we're going to play the quote-xkcd game, this one is relevant too: https://xkcd.com/137
App development companies
What would it take for hackintosh users to move to Linux? You'd think we'd get enough Linux users asking for Adobe products these days... And with Apple's hardware choices lately creatives could be killing it on Linux + whatever HW they can afford. I think one company - like Adobe - migrating over would create a huge domino effect.
Ok, what about other senior management? They are often spokesmen for the company too. What about a middle manager? Surely the argument that employees wouldn't feel comfortable with a CEO donating would apply to middle management too.

It's not just because he's CEO though, separating work and home used to be a basic part of professionalism but we've lost it from all levels.
You need that text file signed by your previous doctors, and your new doctor needs to be able to verify the public keys of your previous doctors using some type of PKI. You also need to locally manage your health records data, its storage can't be easily automated and paid for. Blockchain solves all of those problems in one nice bundle, it provides PKI, signed log of changes, and distributed automated storage. That's one hell of a feature set.
> Axiom of choice assumes that you can always pick the best possible option, however you need to be able to account for your worst possible options as well. All mathematical optimization falls outside of classical logic.

Not sure what you mean here. The axiom of choice just says that the Cartesian product of a set of nonempty sets is nonempty. Can you explain what you mean by "best possible option" and "worst possible options"?
Can you get us a link?
You mean compared to the current "unintended" consequences of the majorly imbalanced relationship between employee and employer?
Yep, recently went through a year watching someone close deteriorate from a productive, happy, caring woman into a scared, confused, and lost being.
PoW solves this by economically incentivizing block production, and thereby creating a cost to anyone that would try to cheat the system. You don't need to trust any party, you trust the math.

You said not to put the government of Venezuela in charge of the ledger. But when the government of Venezuela sends armed forces to the offices of your trusted party to confiscate its servers and equipment, what happens to your ledger?
The term "postmodernism" is a broad descriptor intended to inject some understanding into changes that have already occurred. For example:

- Music went from pristine classical chords to overlapping remixes of existing music;

- architecture went from symmetrical glass boxes to crooked chaotic dissonance;

- visual arts went from seeking the perfect form to an acknowledgment that just about any form can be perfect for the right time/viewer/artist/etc.;

- morality went from religious absolutism to moral relativism;

- even physics went from clean equations that worked everywhere to requiring the observer's viewpoint to be considered (relativity) and more extreme, accepting randomness and unknow-ability as inherent principles (quantam mechanics).

Are these cultural changes related at all? You may say no, each is it's own independent thing that happened for its own separate reasons. But even if that's the case, there are definitely some commonalities among them, chiefly that "value" or even "truth" is far more complex and uncertain than we previously thought.

So to answer your question, yes remixes could exist without postmodernism. But I wonder if postmodernism could have existed without remixes.
Warning

Ninja, by default, sets the number of jobs to the number of available threads. If your machine is memory constrained, with regard to number of threads, you should reduce the number of jobs by passing the -j# switch to the ninja command below. Plan for roughly 1.25GB per thread while linking WebKit to avoid out of memory errors.

My laptop is memory constrained, I have yet to build Chromuium from source. How much RAM on your laptop? I've been looking for a laptop with 32GB RAM.
It’s interesting that he kept a (very) low profile in his two years at the firm.

Was he persona non-grata in ‘the Valley’ after his Microsoft exit?
Ask HN: How do I find out what startup jobs are available in Seattle?
I am somewhat new to the city, and am working at one of the big corp companies - and its boring AF. I dont have any contacts in the startup world here. I am pretty senior so am looking for Sr. Director or VP of Product sort of positions. However I dont know how to go about finding out what startups might have these open. Any recommendations?
We need Adobe and just a few apps to support Linux and we'll create a cascading effect that will lower the cost and increase the power and freedom of many users laptop and desktop choices!
I think you're trying to use the wrong reason to address a different issue.
I hope not, we are getting some really great GPUs for AI. Its is the silver lining of the crypto boom!
> To the asian issue I wonder if it isn't even a negative treatment, just that other racial minorities get a tip and many whites make it through legacy and donoring.

Those are equivalent things. Whether you frame it as boosting the scores of every other group, or cutting the scores of Asians, the net effect is the same, and should be considered the same activity.
I view Apache in the same way that I view OpenSSL. I do not mean that as a bad thing.

I like that, with OpenSSL, there are various obscure—but useful—SSL/TLS-related functionality available. For those who are curious, it was S/MIME encryption and signing (at the time I was playing around with signed/encrypted Apple configuration profiles).

With Apache, you can do remarkable things, and remarkable _combinations_ of things. I've looked at the Apache configuration behind some high-traffic web servers, and I am amazed that Apache can handle it with no problem.

As always, use the right tool for the job.
If your designers aren't programming, they probably don't need to write HTML/CSS either.

Full disclosure: I'm a founder of Pagedraw, which lets designers make UIs as easily as they draw them in a design tool, but are production ready. The designers don't need any code, but programmers can connect it to Javascript data bindings/event handlers as needed.

No one has to write HTML/CSS by hand any more.
To extend your analogy to the internet, just consider that ARPANET was being developed decades before the dotcom boom. And it didn’t look anything like the AOLs/Compuserves through which I first experienced the internet. I agree that if blockchain takes off like that, it’ll probably be in a form we can’t yet imagine.
The only difference is the consensus algorithm. A git repo is proof of authority, or proof of access rights.
There are a lot of very successful indie games written in C# (entirely, not just in a scripting layer). It is very popular for game development.
What if those "political differences" were about reinstating Jim Crow laws? Laws against non heterosexual sex? Miscegenation?
I bought one on ebay for 40 bucks. Beautiful phone. Super solid build, and design - definitely, turns more heads then your everyday iPhone X. If it wasn't so laggy (didn't take a millennium to boot-up), I would use this phone always. Also, it side-loads android, so I got Snapchat, Spotify. Slow, but they are there. The blocker on this phone is the primary interaction method (the keyboard), and that's why I found myself away from it. Just turn off the notifs. I guess I didn't need a "dumbphone", I do need one where it's not convenient enough for me to just swipe up and read on for hours.
I have been trying out SoundPrint to profile good and bad places to go for those of us with a low tolerance for loud music while trying to socialise.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundprint-find-a-quiet-spot...

Not sure if it's available on Android but I"m sure there is something similar.
It's not really collection that's the big issue... the big issue is that the federal DNA database only stores a very small portion of the DNA so familial searches on it are only accurate up to 1st cousins. And there are privacy and disparate impact on minorities(everyone caught thus far with GEDMatch has been white IIRC) complaints with using the federal database for familial searches. With GED Match you can go much deeper(at least to 3rd cousins but IIRC potentially up to 5th) in the family tree than the federal DNA database would allow.

There are about 1 million law enforcement personnel in the US which is about how many samples are in the GEDMatch database... a pretty powerful database could be created just from the samples from law enforcement personnel.
No meetings and decision commitees.
I very much agree. I do not at all think people should self-censor nor hide under the guise of anonymity. They should stay true to their beliefs.

However, if those beliefs are one of a terrible person, as judged their local social and professional networks, then they should be prepared for the consequences.
My point is that the idea that you can't deny reality is false. Governments do it all the time, very successfully, for long periods of time. If the argument is "Western, liberal democracies cannot deny reality for an extended period of time", you're probably closer to making a correct statement, but still false. See: Gulf of Tonkin, Lusitania. You might say "But we know the truth of those incidents!", but of course, I can only cite examples for which we now know the truth. The ones for which we do not are, by definition, uncitable.
are you using this method when mobile too?
Not amazing at all. Those bureaucracies spent their time planning, budgeting, arguing, doing studies, etc., while Tom Tryniski just puts the microfilm in the scanner and scans it.
I think applying YC is not like applying Ivy schools.

The only ones you need to impress are your customers.
It's not optional, it's the only language used in Unity by developers since UnityScript got deprecated.

At least Google Play has more apps in Xamarin[0] than in ReactNative[1] but RN is used in many top apps while Xamarin apps are mostly obscure.

[0]: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/xamarin/xam...

[1]: https://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/react_nativ...
I find it inexplicable how people (you are just one example of a trope) say investors are only interested in the returns on their investments. Everybody has different interests, but every person who invests is a human being living in society with many interests - nobody is a pure abstraction whose only interest is profit, and almost nobody even limits their investments to just one stock. For instance, if I own $1000 of stock in an industrial company, is it in my interest for them to dump toxic waste into the river I live next to in order to make a few extra dollars? Is it in my interest for them to commit crimes against a competitor, especially if I also own stock in that competitor?

The idea that companies exist only to make profits by any means possible is the most anti-capitalist, nihilistic concept I can imagine, and I have never been clear on whether anyone sincerely believes it or if it is just a straw man.
You know a lot more about this than me, so I'll defer to you.

All I meant is that:

* there is cryptographic consensus involved

* there is no single point of failure

Therefore it's a counterexample who people who claim that everything but PoW has a single point of failure. Am I wrong?
There's a 2014 article in The Conversation:[0]

> They asked a number of questions including whether they had conceived a child at a time when they had multiple sexual partners? I was surprised that no more than 2% of women admitted to this.

I can't quite believe that they didn't point out how meaningless this result is. I mean, people aren't even honest about what they eat for breakfast ;)

> These results marry comfortably with DNA estimates of misattributed paternity from samples that cross a broad range of societies which suggest the rate is between 1% and 3%,[1] and with Prof Gilding’s estimate of between 0.7% and 2%.[2]

Based on the studies cited in these articles, about 20-305 of suspicious fathers are correct about their suspicion. But overall, the rate of misattributed paternity seems to be ~1%. However, not that I've read all the primary research, but I suspect that most of the cited studies are too small to be very reliable. Also, nothing that I've see seems based on complete datasets from consumer DNA testing firms.

0) https://theconversation.com/what-are-the-chances-that-your-d...

1) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/06/the-paternity...

2) http://inside.org.au/the-fatherhood-myth/
Get yourself featured on Indiehackers, publicize your numbers and your story (you can leave out the feeling of impending doom), and mention that you're open to a sale. You should get enough offers pretty quickly.

If you want a broker, lots of other comments here mention patio11 and the broker he used for Bingo Card Creator, he recommended them very highly.
Slowing down a computer is useful when programming, but isn't easy to do. I had made my own tool to slow down network connexions, maybe useful to someone: https://github.com/webdev23/kamtar
Yes, I know that's the argument for PoW, but PoW completely sucks in every way compared to trusting somebody.

If the government of Venezuela takes all your computers and puts you in jail, what happens to your Bitcoin?
I don't mean to jump on you, but, yes: there are multiple single points of failure in DNSSEC, which is a simple tree-structured PKI, like we had in the 1990s. There's a "consensus" of a sorts between parent and child, but the parent can override it. Whoever controls .COM can, by fiat, sign Google.com records.
> separating work and home used to be a basic part of professionalism

I think before you automatically assume this is a good thing, you may want to look into what this statement means and what it actually mapped out to historically. Because the time when this was what professionalism meant likely was also the time when certain people had to use different bathrooms.

I.e., it worked, because all of the "problem" segments have already been excluded, and so nobody had to deal with it. There is no problem with being a sexist manager if no women work under you, or if your actions are not perceived as problematic. Pretty easy to keep it "professional", because the definition is already skewed in your favor.
JSX is not markup
What 'projektir said - while religion is definitely changeable in theory in ways that race, gender, age, disability, etc. aren't, as a cultural phenomenon it's definitely heritable, and in particular, the parts that tend to stick are often the parts that aren't associated with ideology. If your social structure has been based around your church (or equivalent) since childhood, it's much easier to change your opinions on what things are moral or what directions a just government should take than to stop showing up. If your family goes to a certain worship service in the winter, you shouldn't face discrimination for going to that service too, and you shouldn't need to defend yourself by saying "I don't actually believe any of it" in public, for everyone including your family to hear.

(It's true that one way to solve this problem would be to highly regulate (or ban, but that's not quite necessary) religion and make sure that people's day-to-day interactions outside of worship are free from religion, with the aim of making it easier to change religions in practice. This would probably start with making it illegal for parents to take their children along with them to religious services or education. There are certain advantages there - but it would be such a huge change from existing free societies and such a huge infringement on how we currently treat religious liberty, that it's hard to say that this is how a free society should work.)

This is also why free societies with nondiscrimination-on-religion norms also tend to give partial but only partial deference to religious beliefs that conflict with secular laws. If it is important to you to have one day of the week off plus a few holy days, great, we can certainly protect your right to do that. If it is important to you that you not have to engage in war, that's fine but we'll still draft you into non-combat service. If it's important to you that you not execute certain laws as a government official or fill certain prescriptions as a pharmacist, that's also fine but you're going to need to find some career other than being an official a pharmacist.
We just have different experiences, as in a lot of shops I was in, performance was not the primary factor in language choice, but it could be its primary detractor of course if poor. Rarely did we ever find the bottleneck of the language the issue, and we dropped into JNI as needed (or more often reworked away from our original assumptions). I would say the majority of Java's success came from these kinds of shops, and the ones where performance made so much of a difference you would abandon the language altogether, I still doubt unsafe saved that abandonment from happening.

This is not to say Unsafe was not appreciated by lots of places, esp wrt high performance libs, embedded dev, HFT shops, etc. But I don't believe that Unsafe really affected success/popularity of the language, heck, it's not even the most important pert of the performance story around the success/popularity of the language not to mention all the other non-performance-related aspects that really did affect its success.
In both cases it seems we're comfortable exposing children to harms of gaming but not to giving them the prizes they've won at gaming? And this is viewed as better for the children? Pull the other one.
Got it.

Would you say that cryptography can create a system where you can trust a set of people, without having to trust one single entity, and without destroying the planet with PoW? And can you give me a better example to use next time?

(For what it's worth, I picked DNSSEC because it had a memorable example of a "key-signing ceremony", perhaps the only instance of such a thing I've heard of that wasn't someone launching a blockchain. I realize that DNSSEC sucks anyway.)
I think you can say that. It just depends on how the numbers turns out, but then we also have to agree on what the right "diversity numbers" are.
This reminds me a lot of Firefox tab groups/panorama which was removed a few years ago. I like the history idea, there are some really good ideas there. I tried finding something in my history on Firefox recently and it was an awful experience, so maybe someone will be inspired by this.
What was the source of the disgrace?
If so then the ultimate application of blockchain is authentication of recorded video as actual, unadulterated video of an event.
Proof of work blockchains arent solving anything here, theyre a step further in the “do not trust” direction. However i think consortium chains may have potential.