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by wskinner 9y ago
Can anyone comment on how Ray fits into the current distributed systems landscape? How does it compare to Spark, Hadoop, Akka, distributed Tensorflow, etc.? It would be really helpful to have an FAQ on the github.io page that answers the qu
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by wskinner 9y ago
It doesn’t have to be symmetric. If there is $2 consumer and $4 producer surplus, both parties benefit. And just because enrichment, as you call it, can happen other ways than exchange, does not mean it doesn’t happen via exchange too.
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by wskinner 9y ago
“Most of America” as in most people, or most land area? I have lived in cities my whole life and have never had less than 3 choices of provider at purchase time.
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Ask HN: What places do you consider historical analogies to 21st century SV?
1 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
What makes it worth 15k is that people will pay that much for it. The price is determined by buyers and sellers, trading with each other on markets called exchanges.
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by wskinner 9y ago
It feels good to be vindicated about this. As a San Francisco and Berkeley resident, this has happened to me more times than I can count. Seemingly every item carried by USPS was marked delivered prematurely. This was a factor in cancelling
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by wskinner 9y ago
The one I was thinking of is actually I-80 north of Utah to outside of Sparks, Nevada. But yes, the section of I-70 you’re thinking of is quite nice.
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by wskinner 9y ago
So your point is that in ideal (not real world) conditions, trains have higher throughput. And in Japan, the cost to a consumer is higher to drive. A) why should we care about ideal rather than real world scenarios? If the train is only 30%
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by wskinner 9y ago
Passenger rail in the United States probably doesn’t have the same economics as the other places you’re thinking of. I recently drove across part of the country, and it is shocking how much space there is with absolutely nothing there. Ther
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by wskinner 9y ago
Me too. That was back when Ether was at $2-3. Either the market is very irrational, or it just doesn't matter that much, and people are willing to take the risk of stuff like this happening again and again.
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by wskinner 9y ago
Most student loans come from the federal government, and the rates are fixed regardless of risk. So what you and parent are really suggesting is increasing interest rates on student loans, which I totally support. Getting the government out
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by wskinner 9y ago
How would reducing the costs of going to college drive down the number of people going to college? To clarify what I mean: If student loan debt is dischargeable, that means that taking out a loan for college is actually less risky. We shoul
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by wskinner 9y ago
Why do you trust the very large attack surface that is your personal computer less than the smaller attack surface that is your smartphone?
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by wskinner 9y ago
Care to say who "we" are? This sounds very interesting!
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by wskinner 9y ago
Then they shouldn't use the proprietary, opaque Skinner box. :) It's not like they have a gun to their heads.
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by wskinner 9y ago
This feature can be disabled.
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by wskinner 9y ago
In fact, you can, using sslstrip. It was demonstrated in the video, as well as in this article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/sever... . I think this will only work against android&#x2
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by wskinner 9y ago
Markets aggregate information in a (usually) efficient way. Information is useful to different people in different ways. Just to take one example, if the stock price of a company falls and stays low for a whole, that could reflect some nega
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by wskinner 9y ago
Yes. It appears that since KRACK can allow the attacker to hijack a TCP handshake that they could potentially downgrade an HTTPS connection where HSTS is not used, but that shouldn’t affect your VPN connection.
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by wskinner 9y ago
HTTPSEverywhere will not magically upgrade a site that doesn't serve HTTPS to HTTPS. If you connect to a site that doesn't support HTTPS, you are vulnerable.
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by wskinner 9y ago
When I search from the USA, it displays a card informing me that Barack Obama is 56 years old.
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Ask HN: Who is working on privacy these days?
3 points by wskinner 9y ago|1 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
This is 10 months old. Can we add a (2016)?
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by wskinner 9y ago
Does anybody actually understand the implications of this? This press release is very light on information. What does this technology being added to Ethereum enable that wasn't possible before?
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Ask HN: What worthwhile things have been built on Ethereum?
12 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Can you say more about how you found contract work? I've heard bad things about ODesk and similar sites.
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by wskinner 9y ago
Why do you feel entitled to start a startup? Everything you mentioned aside from your medical expenses is a choice. If you choose to prioritize things that prevent you from starting a startup, then you are choosing not to start a startup.
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by wskinner 9y ago
Try it. The downside risk is usually much smaller than that little voice at the back of your mind thinks.
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Ask HN: Do you use a personal financial advisor?
6 points by wskinner 9y ago|2 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
It's no different, except that people who claim to be open and tolerant never really are. They are just tolerant of one or the other outgroup to the degree that that outgroup is socially acceptable. I think the reason this happens is t

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