kylebrown

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by kylebrown 10y ago
According to the website, FindBugs was partially funded by a couple of NSF grants. So US taxpayers did indirectly pay for his services.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> But if the startup gods aren’t smiling, and you can’t either figure out the cause and/or figure out how to correct it, it’s time to start working on a Plan B for the business. Plan B often includes kicking off a strategic process
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Is there a free/open-source download for RiakTS? Or can anyone recommend something lighter-weight than full-blown Kafka etc.?
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> But something tells me that our society and economy derives zero benefit from nanosecond resolution trading vs. trading with say 1 minute resolution. Not only does nanosecond resolution provide zero benefit, models indicate that it a
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Otherwise a broker would just route mom n' pop's orders to the exchange that pays the biggest bribe to the broker (and screw mom n' pop).
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by kylebrown 11y ago
A point of controversy is whether or not the 43 students were incinerated. The indedentent experts (GIEI) report insist that it was impossible: > Dr. José Luis Torero, an internationally recognized fire-investigation expert, was hired b
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Specifying a solution is easy; that's a purely technical exercise. The hard problem is figuring out how we get from where we are now (A) to where we want to go (B); that's a political problem.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
The screenshot in the article is one I posted 9 months ago, and is being used without attribution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8593050
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by kylebrown 11y ago
The other day, I ran across this in a Yudkowsky article[1]: > Suppose that earthquakes and burglars can both set off burglar alarms. If the burglar alarm in your house goes off, it might be because of an actual burglar, but it might als
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> In a hypothetical cyber-utopia or something, this could all just be a simple protocol (say, um, combining aspects of Direct Connect, BitTorrent, NNTP, Gopher, Bitcoin, GPG) The article does mention p2p and decentralization, but the b
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Javascript package managers like npm tend to work much more seamlessly than the old unix ones. Wouldnt mind scrapping them all for https://node-os.com/ Also, the reason package managers suck is because.. entropy. See Joe Ar
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Microsoft's first customer was IBM because an IBM VP sat on the board of Seattle National Bank with Bill Gates's mother (the bank was founded by Bill's grandfather).
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> Can we entirely rule out the possibility of AI researchers making advancements over time, and then eventually some research lab building one that's super intelligent compared to us? Why? That's not the thing we should be wo
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by kylebrown 11y ago
In the comments of a recent mathematics-without-apologies blog post[1], there was a back-and-forth between Jacob Lurie and Urs Schreiber (the author of the OP article on nLab). I've been trying to parse the material on nLab for years,
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by kylebrown 11y ago
I, for one, welcome our new corporate data center overlords.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Speaking of smalltalk, was project Oberon inspired by Alan Kay's STEPS project to implement a full OS + apps in under 20k LoC? http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf
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by kylebrown 11y ago
https://github.com/ejgallego/jscoq
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Quoting from a comment on the linked article: > I’d only add that the corrupt elites were not only overspending, but they were involved in vendor finance scams. Hundreds of millions in bribes on some single deals. The credit came through
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> You can't deny the fact that in the last decade, greeks have become accustomed to a certain life style that can no longer be maintained. The point of the article is that the 'moral hazard' of lending and borrowing cuts b
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by kylebrown 11y ago
This is just begs the question of what the tax policy should be. If mainly income is taxed, then the rich get (proportionally) more votes. If mainly consumption is taxed, then everyone else (those who spend their income rather than save&#x2
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> EDIT: disabled zoom? Hah, the OP article does disable zoom. Disabled zoom is one of the frustrating things lately about iOS apps. Every time I try to show someone older than me something in a Skype chat, or (speaking of google) in a ha
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Your reference [1] confused me because most of the books I saw were about code and design patterns, or books by Tufte. I also didn't realize what DoET meant, on first glance.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Thanks. These innocuous seeming algorithms may be even more influential than advertisements.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
The Poisson process equation is actually in Satoshi's whitepaper. The 6-block confirmation rule-of-thumb comes from it.
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> That mammalian brains are motivated by optimization of energy expenditure. Like anything in biologically evolved systems, energy efficiency is key, since food is often scarce. That doesn't square with empirical reality. Evolved
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> The problem is simulations of the brain are not "machines", they are algorithms, Simulations are executed on concrete machines that exist in the real world. Algorithms are abstract concepts. > e.g. they assume everything i
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> We recommend expanded research aimed at ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems are robust and beneficial: our AI systems must do what we want them to do. The author points out that the meaning of this statement hinges on the wor
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by kylebrown 11y ago
> Smart contracts are pointless since you need trust anyway to deal with real-world assets. jgarzik (bitcoin core dev) disagrees with you, he tweeted recently that he's excited about their potential (he calls them "active addre
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by kylebrown 11y ago
I see the FAQ says no callbacks. So as long as there aren't any callbacks, running app state should be preserved through code updates? The video demos a React component, great. I hope amok will work with my current workflow, using jspm
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by kylebrown 11y ago
Bo Xilai was deposed eight months before Xi Jinping took over. The corruption crackdown that ensued under Xi overwhelmingly targeted officials who were not "Second Generation Red." After Bo, other princelings made sure they got of

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