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Palm Springs is incredible. I can strongly recommend a visit.

My partner and I (we live in Australia) have visited twice, as she developed a deep interest in modernist architecture over the past few years.

The whole place has the optimistic feel of The Jetsons cartoons, and as you return to reality you wonder “what the hell happened to the world?”.

There’s an architecture tour you can do with a gentleman named Robert Imber, the president of the local architecture society (he’s mentioned/pictured as the tour guide in this article).

He says there’s an informal club called (IIRC) “victims of Robert” - people who have taken his tour, fallen in love with Palm Springs and ended up buying a house there. He claims the membership numbers in the double digits.

True or not, Robert is a wonderful character and an icon of Palm Springs, who has played a huge role in preserving its heritage and sharing it with a wide audience around the world.

[0] https://www.palmspringsmoderntours.com/about.html
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The problem with h.264 was, that it dictated the business model for everything that embedded it. In this regard, it was exactly the same "cancer" as Microsoft once said about GPL.

To add on this argument: another huge problem is that the license terms made open source development/distribution really hard (i.e. a patent minefield). Similarly it could lead to legal trouble for people who just hosted their videos.
Yeah brain zaps are pretty nasty. I had them when I first started to reduce the dose. If I remember correctly it was around the 75 to 100mg/day level that I had the worst/most zaps. Felt like a lightning bolt inside my brain followed by the a very uncomfortable warmth moving around inside my head. I got pretty damn concerned about it as it almost felt like my brain was leaking inside and I thought god what if I had a stroke or something?! Very nasty things.

The reason I wrote my comment was because I wanted to mention the anger as part of the withdrawal as it isn't something discussed much by mental health professionals, at least not in my experience. They just briefly say "you might be more easily irritated" or something vague like that. However it was by far the biggest symptom of withdrawal I have experienced and the one that has had the biggest effect not just to me but those around me.

Several times my wife has commented "god you're a moody sod today can't you just keep taking the damn tablets?!" and without realising the anger is a side-effect of coming off the tablets I think it would be very easy to get into the mindset of "hmm maybe I would be better off going back on the tablets" and so they do just that.

I wanted to say that while the anger is frustrating it does get better. Like all withdrawals you need to fight through it.
Thank you for sharing this video. I meditated today using this video. What a great experience? Are there more videos like this from Alan Watts? This one put me right in the meditative state.
I just commented to someone the other day- I loved how clean the metro was but hated the prices for sub-par services. I hate the distance based pricing.
are you saying it's not non-consensual sex because the point is not for the horse to enjoy it but it is non-sensual sex with the dolphin because the point is for the dolphin to enjoy it.
> you have to wonder if people won't abandon their wallets over time.

Storage is cheap enough, I think the early forgetful adopters learned their lesson from that.
Usually, free software get a royalty free license. In the case of HEVC, software decoders are free as long as they are not bundled with hardware. They explicitly said that they are OK with VLC.

Worth noting that the patent conditions still apply. It may be a problem for some free software distribution, and as a result software like VLC isn't always available by default.
One of the related project he mentioned being very interested in is Baby AI, which is trying to improve grounded language learning, so incorporating world knowledge into NLP:

* https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.08272

* https://github.com/mila-udem/babyai
WebKit started as a fork from khtml (from kde). Apple didn't have a choice about open sourcing Webkit because they started with GPL2 code. They would have kept it closed source if they could, but that would have taken a few years of development, while they could start with khtml and get a great browser in just a few months.

I expect in a few years (5-10) Apple will do an audit, discover that only a small amount of code isn't written by Apple, and replace that with inhouse code and then relicense to something propitiatory. Time will tell.
Personally, and by no means am I a bitcoin-enthusiast, there's a lot of value to be had by something that allows relatively frictionless international money transfer. I realize that's not necessarily a feature of blockchains, though it is a feature of cryptocurrencies (for now, at least).

We had a friend who lives in a commonwealth country working for us as a contractor, and figuring out how to pay them was a pretty big PITA. I was really close to just paying them in bitcoin, because it was that much of a hassle.

Ultimately I was too afraid of any potential tax/legal implications to follow through on that, and we ended up just using TransferWise instead. Still, it was that much of a pain.
> We're in the business of Fiat > Crypto > Fiat instant money transfers which is immune to what the current market is.

You should chat with Pablo, Luiz and Patel. They own a bodega, a bill pay stall and an electronics stall in a rapidly gentrifying part of Brooklyn. All three of them have been providing this service for years, without the need for expensive computer equipment or bitcoin. Some of their customers don't speak English, have a fourth grade level of education and just fill out slips of paper to send/receive money worldwide within a few minutes.
Garnet Neural Network demo:

http://www.crystals.ai/
Disclaimer: I've been working full time on various large FLOSS projects for many years and I contribute to other ones in my spare time.

You start with "I salute you. I’m a fan" and then call a lot of people "fundamentalist", then "You have made a choice based on an ideology", "blind to the realities of the world you live in".

Then "But like most utopian views, it’s naive", "It’s a pipe dream", and finally "Like all fundamentalists, they simply ignore some inconvenient truths".

Then you ramble through justifications of your business model (and quite a few logical fallacies).

For being a fan, you express your support in a strange way.

Now excuse me while I go back to writing software as a gift to whoever wants to use it.
I never felt like I owned anything, so it's not that bad.

I virtually went from £0 to £4k to £800.
The ASIC miner (which I can now use as a nice doorstep) was paid off by selling half the amount I mined back then, so as of today that is still a £800 profit.
ReSET is FDA-authorized prescription digital therapeutic
The article briefly mentioned competition from ride sharing services but I wonder to what extent it's made an impact.

Anecdotally, given how cheap Uber and Lyft are in Manhattan (typically $4-5 for a shared ride), I often find myself opting for that instead of dealing with the hassles of the subway system. Both are unreliable when it comes to timeliness, as ride sharing services often take longer than expected (especially Uber Pool and Lyft Line). And as painful as the subway system can sometimes be, I do appreciate the rich history and incredible performances you'll often come across in subway stations. I'm torn, to be honest.
As a counterpoint, bitcoin has dropped faster than Ethereum, the principal ICO platform.
It has to be open source in the sense of sharing the source code, but companies take the extra step of making it open source in the sense you have a license to use it for your own website.
On-time performance has dropped dramatically in the past ten years. In the following article, look for the graph titled, "On-time performance by line, 2007 to 2017".

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/28/nyregion/subw...
VCs are lazy and dont like traveling more than an hour
> But you are basically saying that everyone is putting peanuts in their software, which is simply false.

An easy way to prove that is indeed publishing your code and letting the users compile it themselves. You can still hide your peanuts, but if somebody finds them, you'll have a hard time proving it was not there.

I see no difference between the two cases. As per your suggestion, it would seem reasonable to make proprietary software illegal after all.
What stock market crash? Vanguard’s Total Market Index (VTI) is up 2% for the year, and only down 10% from its All Time High (excluding dividends):

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/vti

Tech stocks aren’t the whole market.
"So tell me, what's wrong with the Proceedings of Neural Information Systems again?"
They could do that, or they could use a 30 year old flatbed tow truck bought at auction for $800
True ownership of scarce digital assets is something that blockchains excel at, particularly decentralized blockchains (because true ownership means no individuals have the power to control your asset) - there are still endless questions about what this means and how this plays out in practice, but it’s a real use case with a fascinating future that will live independently of the get rich quick fantasies of most blockchain proponents.
Putting peanuts/analytics is pretty much a standard practice these days for most proprietary projects and even some FLOSS ones (where at least you can remove it by yourself).
This shocks me. Here is this man who is clearly a complete novice in international politics, economics and history. He says that we should make rogue countries “feel guilty” for developing malicious ai implementations. He hand-waves away the military as simpletons who “act on duty” like a f*king high school student. When confronted with the existential threats of ai he launches into an analysis of African visa process and “inclusivity.” This is complete and utter garbage. Worst of all he talks about reaching general, human-like ai without ever mentioning that it is basically an automatic extinction level event for human kind. If you disagree then check out my comment history and change my mind. Preventing general ai is extremely important and anyone who wants to form some kind of group to encourage regulation and legislation around ai please get in touch with me.
I think a better analogy is the q-tip method of relieving a female cat in heat. They have a need, it is interfering with day-to-day life, you help them out.

I'm more intrigued by the moral code that finds sexually stimulating an animal on its request morally wrong, but force-feeding them LSD a-okay.
> could venture a guess about the reasons for the sudden drop

It has to decline, I was giving it 2-5 yeas, but it seems it dropped much faster:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15760415

As for the faster than usual now, my guess is few things. Main contribution is NVidia that had their earnings report, they told the planet flat out gpus aren't selling as well, so the gig that everybody is increasingly mining was called up. Normal people check out, traders can't trade if they can't short it and it's starts going downhill. So anybody that's in the business of not losing money stops the bots. But nvidia the most visible thing that creates sentiment among the crypto-evangelist population it seems.

The other reasons wound be, end of a 40 year bull run across western democracies, end of the minor cycle economy run, add to that a trade war, QT, people overexposed on the houses with HELOCs and stuff from that QT, and everybody will be pulling cash from everywhere since cash will matter fairly soon.

The rest is standard, stock market drop by 20% or much more, asset bubble deflation, etc etc. It's all fairly cyclical.
Even according to the IRS's own estimates, laws like Fatca would never pass a cost/benefit test. The implementation costs of such bureaucratic monstrosities is in the range of hundreds of billions, whereas the benefit is a few orders of magnitude lower. The established banks do not complain much about it because the high fixed cost of compliance disproportionally affects small firms, thereby protecting them from being disrupted by innovative startups.
Pretty sure it's more that IFLs are not allowed to run z/OS workloads. I think you can run Linux on CPs just fine, it's just more expensive.
Reagan and Bush believed in free trade - maybe not completely, but it was something like believed would turn out better for the long run. Note that nobody worries about Japan taking our jobs anymore.

Since we don't have parallel universes to play with we can never experiment to see which approach is better.
I am trying to understand the infra around using something like Hasura (or graphQL in general).
If I wanted to make a site like HN, do I just use a hosted DB with hasura on top? Do I need to have HaProxy/NGinx for the reverse proxy between the client and Hasura?

What about caching of the results? All 100 viewers to my popular post will see the same page content and comments.
Can I serve this from a cache insetad of the db, if I am using graphQL?

How will horizontal scaling work? replication? etc. I know Hasura may not be directly involved in these but I would appreciate any thoughts on these all the same.
Barring time travel, I'm not sure how a stock market correction starting in September 2018 can cause a Bitcoin crash starting in December 2017.
Delays, primarily. Overcrowding, secondarily.
"When the street gets in, its time to get out."
I tend to agree. There is suddenly a flash, 50% off sale on the hiri website that wasn't there earlier this morning before this link hit the HN front page.
> Should tax dollars be used to subsidize development of consumer products primarily used for entertainment?

If this means abolishing patents: then yes.

By the way: video codecs have a lot more applications than entertainment. I just want to mention teleconferencing.
I would expect this relates to Hashicorp's Vault product. It's gaining some notoriety and employs Shamir's secrets to seal/unseal the main vault.
Shhh! You'll spook the suckers... I mean new investors, with that talk.
Ctrl-F gold...
This movement may answer the question whether Bitcoin will react to a bear market like gold or like oil. There are good arguments for both and no past behavior to analyze because Bitcoin appeared after the 2008 crash.
Great post! Very helpful thanks
> All these people do more harm than good. Their formats should be abandoned in favor of royalty free formats, for example like AV1.

Know your enemy. :-)
Thanks very much for the link.

But eyeballing that chart suggests an average deterioration significantly worse than 20 percent.
Only a few months back, I happened to talk to a person associated bitcoin trading. You instantly get that feeling of talking to a person deep in a pyramid scheme.

He talked endlessly about how he plans to buy a luxury villa with all fancy facilities worth crores, and an expensive car, and it would all happen, and he would defy the world and rub it in their face. All with bitcoin money. He continued to justify his actions, decisions with unimaginable zeal. The closest I've seen this kind of conviction is among high religious people. It almost felt the same way.

The general feeling among this crowd is their heaven is only steps away, and will come to pass sooner. Other people will left watching, and will come to be envy of their success. And he can do all that by just investing in some coins and watch it become very big.

I was tempted to debate, but given how deep he was in fantasy, I thought it best that he be left alone, at least the guy can have fun in his thoughts while he can.

But the larger problem is with people, so many people want to do so much with one life. Many people go into wrong academic tracks, end up being accountants, or real estate brokers or whatever. And they see no bailing or escape from low paying jobs, and living working through a mediocre career, under achieving all the way. Its easy to lure such people into any thing that mildly looks to pay disproportionately with little effort. What follows next is religious conviction in such pursuits, even if they can proved totally irrational. People do like to believe miracles can happen in the face of every day mediocrity. And when ponzi schemes come along, they helpless fall for them.
Maybe train it 'backwards'? I mean take a painting [1] as the input and perturb it with a photographic image toward photo realism. [2]

[1]: Assumptions about the 'quantity of art' inherent in painting versus photography seem to be playing a role. Both are typically flat images and are computationally fungible. So maybe photo styled to photo might be a different training set. It's not that radically different from etching applied to photograph.

[2]: anyway, still an awesome project. What I imagined is something that could have subtle effects on a photograph as an artistic tool for photographers...because that's my bias.
Oh absolutely it was hyperbole. I should have said "higher quality"; I'm scared to think about how well-documented and written Atlassians non-open-source stuff is if that's the quality of their open source stuff. I'd bet money that a good bit of it is worse, much worse.
Numbers, please. (That's what "metric" means, btw).
I remember reading a story about someone who got fired from some Silicon Valley tech job, and they almost immediately revoked their key card, so they got stuck in the staircase and had to wait for someone to hold the door open so they could get out of the building. (As if getting fired wasn't bad enough, you have to beg favours from random passers-by.)
If your mother has never heard of Instagram, Netflix, eBay, or Yahoo, that doesn't mean nobody has heard of them. They're still almost as popular as Reddit.
Pasting the stuff for 0.2.0 in now and allowing people to comment any bugs
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It's a lot easier to recover when a recovery mechanism is built in - aka the halving. We're a solid year and a half away from that event happening, it'll go lower than this in that time but once the new supply restricts it'll make its slow ascent back up, people will see the opportunity and the demand will skyrocket again.

I say this a lot, it's helpful to think of bitcoin as an algorithm, I just see this pattern playing out the same way over and over and over again every four years.
So, I haven't been to New York in a while, but I'm guessing that you were poorly informed.

Usually when public transit networks start showing strain, it's during rush hours, when they're handling massive spikes in ridership. To give an example from Chicago: If you're trying to get on the train downtown at 6:00pm, you'll get on the next train, and probably get to sit in a seat. If you try to do it at 5:00pm, you stand a good chance of waiting 30 minutes for a train that you can even physically get on to. When you do, your ride will probably also take 50% longer than the 6pm ride would have. And maybe even 100% longer than a ride at 7pm would have.

You naturally get all the complaints from the rush hour riders. And yeah, if your concert were starting at 6 in the evening so that you'd have to brave rush hour traffic, then that would be a problem. But so would driving.

If, like most concerts, it was starting a bit later, you'd very likely have experienced smooth service.
> The price has been bouncing off the 6k magic "resistence" for ages now

"Resistance" is from above, "support" is from below.

Last week, the 6k USD / BTC price looked solid. Every time 6k was tested, the community would buy up BTC and the price would go back up. Today, we have blown through the 6k USD / BTC "Support" and selling has continued down, beyond the 5k mark.

Its hard to say what the next support mark is. If you asked me yesterday, I would have thought that 5k was the next support. But now that's been pushed out now. So 4.5k is my assumed support area for now.

There's no "resistance" on the upper-end of the BTC market depth charts until ~7k USD/BTC. Someone really wants to sell at 7k USD/BTC, where there is ~300,000 BTC waiting to be sold (if the price ever got back to that height). The community as a whole would have to spend over $2.1 Billion to grow from $6.9k to $7.1k (wiping out the 300k BTC available at 7k). Such a huge-sum of money is why that point is called a "resistance", because it will "resist" efforts to bring the price above 7k

Just an FYI.
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This may make sense in specific situations, but my favorite thing about it is the wordplay and what it points out about surveillance - surveillance is the more powerful watching the less powerful.
Is there something useful that all the custom built bitcoin mining rigs can do now that it probably is less economical to use them to mine?
Sometimes I nearly shed a tear when I open my wallet that shows me how many coins it held over its lifetime. It even converts it into my local currency as if to mock me. I remember times where those Bitcoin faucets (is that still a thing?) gave you 50BTC every X hours just for entering your wallet address. Of course I spend nearly all of them on stupid stuff later on but before they gained considerable value. I still have an old external HDD with somewhere between 20-50BTC on it that I broke and haven’t had the money to fix it and retrieve them.
Leadership: Connecting and Communicating Purpose [video]
Sperner's lemma defeats the rental harmony problem
Can you share a link to tutorial?
Man all those hedge funds with 100s of data scientist are just waisting resources when the situation is so simple "Everything sells off this time of year"
They are mad, but Trump has successfully spun to them the idea that they are an unfortunate victim of the situation and things will be better for everyone in the long run if we take care of this.

Well successful to the republicans and most of the independents. This is politics: it should be assumed that Democrat will oppose anything Trump does no matter how good it is - just like republicans opposed everything Obama did.
Nvidia stocks are dropping like a rock, too: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nvda
Why is this downvoted so much? I don't hold any crypto and my portfolio is not looking too great this last few months either. One of my tech stocks lost dropped over 30%.

The recent behavior certainly goes against the notion that BTC is digital gold. Seems like it's correlated with general market sentiment like most other financial instruments.
Oh, Docker is especially garbage to automate with usual tools. You have to write an entire application via the API to do stuff somewhat reliably.
Hasn't GPU mining been unprofitable for at least five years now? I remember everyone moving to asics back in 2012.
Also I have experimented a little and found something more. If I delete Google Account from the phone, force stop Hangouts, clear its cache and try to log in with that account again, Hangouts shows this screen [1] with "Back up to Google Drive" option enabled again.

I tried twice - and every time Google sets this option on by default even if I had disabled it previous time.

Of course, this might be not intentional - maybe the enable sync flag is not stored at Google server.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/7XjfCst.png
I'm saying that intent informs morality. eg: Murder and Man Slaughter.
I tried Firefox and Chrome to see if it was a browser dependency. I tried work and home internet to see if it was a firewall issue.

In the Console if you bring it up you can see the issue. It's unable to connect to the socket it's trying to connect to. So a live bug.
No need to apologize. I didn't mean to suggest any failure of intent or diligence. The problem is only that people who have grown up in a culture of both "goto is evil" and "exceptions are free" has a poor lens through which to view the comparison. It's just one of those things that might need to be clarified in a later version as time marches on around us. In general, I found the article very well written and helpful.