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Just want to point out that once Azure launches their submersible datacenter units Azure Functions may literally become dead in the water.

the whistleblower gets some significant % of settlement

and perfect vs imperfect information - the policy network has to forecast enemy positions and deduce enemy goals. At least in Go you know full game state

He was daring a human-managed fund to outperform S&P500. I don't think Warren is an authority on market's microstructure and quant trading, which these companies exploit.

Basically on very quick trades machines outperform humans. For long term investment a prediction market (stock market index) outperforms humans and machines.

Could you give some examples of how dplyr-based data cleaning code would look in modern julia?

I think it was in f.lux's blog that while f.lux does reduce amount of blue light, apple's built-in night mode (the one on your iphone for example) didn't.

Can't find source now.

> You still have to trust whoever created the rules and wrote the code (from maliciousness and errors).

100% agree with you. Seems like a bunch of people are neglecting this factor or misunderstanding what they are buying into.

Blockchain is not 'distributed trust'. In practice, blockchain centralizes trust. You trust your bitcoin wallet to correctly send money to the addresses that you supply, and correctly generate receiving addresses.

There is only one thing to audit/trust now - the bitcoin protocol and its implementation - instead of studying how modern banking and legal systems work. You trust one thing instead of trusting dozens of middlemen. While this sounds like a non-issue to those who live in "first world" countries like USA and only transact internally, it is a big deal for international transactions and some of the less developed economies.

Blockchain conferences.

Blockchain!

The only solution is to take the unwritten rules and write them down

Great! Have some WINE.

you can't easily make a million from a single dollar that you can double spend. having lots of crypto surely helps reduce the time it takes to satisfy your greed.

This is exactly the point. A risk averse strategy is optimal for areas of a business that you do not have expertise in. If hiring isn't the thing you do best (supposedly your strengths are writing and selling software) then it makes sense to pick a hiring strategy that doesn't cause disruptions.

You have just equated hiring a coder for a job to finding a spouse.

Nengo is a very exciting technology. Wonder if they are working with Intel to make nendo models run on the announced spiking neural network processor

Use that data to understand what movies you enjoy, cross-referenced with data that you leave in web searches and social media.

This makes the job of "design a movie that would appeal to X demographic" much easier

Imagine soviet government running Hadoop MapReduce jobs and using "big data" to drive GOSPLAN? Would be a marvel to watch this soul-crushing efficiency machine.

I think the parent meant deflationary economics vs inflationary of today

Ethereum Classic lives on, feel free to support it with money/code if you feel so strongly about immutability at all costs

Fast forward to 2018, and we have Windows Subsystem for Linux, and a very popular BSD in silver aluminum cases made by a fruit company, dominate the desktop market. You could say that the year of linux on desktop is today (in some perverse modified form, but nonetheless).

blasphemy!

I remember a discussion on HN about Orchid Protocol, where proponents argued that if you route traffic through GCP/AWS China wouldn't dare ban the big american clouds because that would, in effect, ban most of legitimate internet for its citizens, and that would have a net negative effect on its economy and its citizens' well-being.

Russia shows that political will and/or technical incompetence can easily overlook these things.

Haha, this reminds me of red-lang's approach to get funded via ICO https://ico.red-lang.org/

this is exactly how R syntax works

Nobody can read your secrets if you don't have anyone to send them to.

Telegram is actually fighting the Russian government over the encryption keys, saying that it is impossible to hand them over (I assume this is for e2e encrypted secret chats). The consequence of this action is that they'll likely get banned (i.e. removed from app store). How much of this is a farce remains to be seen, since the whole nation, from casual users to small businesses to government employees use the app daily.

As a Russian, I do appreciate the fear that the "russki" brand instills in your soul, but I think you are rightly being downvoted for jumping to conclusions simply based on nationality.

because legacy tech wants to be amortised over long time periods. If you start implementing things later you can pick the best tech. US banking was among the first to become digital and thus still has to maintain technical choices of the past

What does N stand for? Netflix?

I disagree. For example, homebrew isn't the best package manager. But its vast reach is a feat of its own.

Same with redis. Is it the best DB ever? Probably not. But it is definitely used quite a bit in the industry and a lot of people get acquainted with nosql databases and k/v stores through redis.

Engineering accomplishments without proper marketing, education and adoption are quite useless, for better or for worse

Oh no, don't get me wrong, I think the regulation is totally stupid. Why bother regulating something over which you have no control of? It is just putting unnecessary barriers for domestic innovators while your real competition is not wasting precious cycles.