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I'm not yet grasping what it means. I'm a lone developer targetting a B2B ecosystem made of 75% US, 15% EU. As far as I understand, the following activities are now forbidden. If so, that's the strongest protectionism that EU startups could ever dream of...

- Emailing my EU customers using MailChimp,

- Pasting my EU customer data in a Google Spreadsheet,

- Using Google Analytics,

- Hosting my services in AWS-US

Am I totally off?
To clarify, you don't just pick high variance players.

You _must_ pick some people that are high-cost high-reward types. The superstars that will almost always get their lion's share of points. You cannot win a tournament just by picking high variance players, or it would be extremely hard to do so. You also have a salary cap so you can't just pick 5 superstar players. The higher their perceived worth, the higher they cost to "buy" them.

So the main point you can differentiate yourself from other players is to find "sleeper" picks. These are players that are OK but not GREAT but if given a proper matchup, could do very well.

For example, you may pick the 2nd best receiver on a team hoping he has a great day because the opposing defense is known to double team the offense's best receiver. This may give the 2nd best receiver more opportunities for catching the ball for yardage/touchdowns.

BUT the thing is, this happens a lot. So you know maybe 4 games where this will happen. But you don't know the percentage picked of each player. Just like in March Madness brackets where picking all chalk (the favorites) to win is a bad strategy because almost everyone else is doing it and at best/worst you will tie, it is to your advantage to bet on players that you think _may_ have a chance, but are picked the least from the pool.

So the advantage this employee got, was he knew how often each player was picked on DraftKings, so given his basic assumptions he just applied those percentages to FanDuel. He knew player X had a good matchup, but _no_ one was picking him. So he plays multiple lineups with player X, buying him up so if he has a good day the employee will win big.

But he also places wagers on player Y, player Y has been picked more than player X, but still enough where the employee can get a good return, so he places a couple of lineups with player Y in it (even combining with player X hoping they both have big games). Buying some lineups with player Y also hedges your bet in case player X doesn't do well. This is probably what you are curious about. You don't pick only player X hoping he does have a great game. You hedge by buying more lineups with him in it, but supplement that with other lineups and picks that you think are +EV.

So the advantage is you know who hasn't been picked a lot. And as you start buying players you have to start spending more "efficiently." If you know player Z has only been bought 10% of the time but you know he has a high likelihood of a big game, you will pick player Z more in your lineups than other lower priced players because his returns will be good.
Why should I do this when there lots of paying and non-paying work of various sorts out there already?
Message delivery is not a problem that needs solving. You don't even need XMPP for that, good old sockets do the trick. The problem is that you need to fetch data over high latency network links and you are not even allowed to cache it due to legal reasons.
I like the idea of finding a good decision in the context of a current situation. I don't like the idea that terms like 'correct' and 'incorrect' should not be used. For some problems, there exist exactly correct solutions (like adding integers). The lack of a well-founded or at least well-known correct solution is what forces you to look for an optimal solution made of trade-offs.
Those two lines do different things. They're not analogous.

The equivalent to the UNIX line above in Powershell is:

ls "C:\app\*.log" -R | sls "Error" | sort

You cannot just tack on a bunch of extra requirements for Powershell (grouping, sorting by certain things and in a certain order) and then not include them in the UNIX example, that's disingenuous/misleading.

The only big difference between PS and UNIX in an actual analogous example is that the PS version of grep gets files fed in one by one and processes them, whereas UNIX's grep processes files itself.

PS - The above Powershell code may not work in 2.0 (2009). You'll need 3.0 (2012) or higher.
I wonder if that prospect might not form enough of a threat that national governments might finally have the gumption to rein in their intelligence services.
The LMP1 class is not restricted by horsepower, which is what I said. Nascar or WRC would be examples of classes with horsepower limits.
These finance analogies are getting out of hand...
Nope, I'm seeing messed up pages on chrome too.

EDIT: So the page finally loads properly, I guess for some reason it takes forever to load the images. The biggest file is a 3.5MB mp4 while all other images are under 700KB. And the loading speed doesn't change back to normal even with cache enabled. It could be some problematic static file routing and controls.
Little school project? Was that the original intention?
Exactly, instead of "get a bigger trackpad" the answer could be "get a mouse".
But that's the thing - no matter the amount of money poured in, the vast majority of campaigns still feature candidates ignored by almost everyone. For most campaigns, the money doesn't affect someone's opinion of the candidates, because they aren't even aware of the candidates.

You see this more and more as you move away from the big races - I've seen numerous examples where the loser outspent the victor 20 or 50 to 1. Heck, there was even a situation recently where someone with just about no political or financial backing came in second (doing better than several candidates with much better funding and much more insider connection) simply because his name sounded like another politicians. When I look at things like this, it seems like apathy influences our politics much, much more than money.
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If the regulatory regime allows one insurance company to be responsible for underwriting so much of the economy's risk, then of course if regulators are wrong about the required amount of risk capital the firm should be required to hold, regulators are on the hook to nationalize it or to provide credit.

Most of the post-depression financial regulations were intended to put barriers in place to large firm size/share, and it wasn't until this was eroded by the financial modernization act of 1999/2000 that AIG's growth was even possible.

It's not that the outcome was a surprise, it was just low probability enough that everyone involved was willing to take the risk in exchange for the financial and career benefits that supporting the loosening of regulations offered.

There still exist many other low probability events that could cause a similar disruption, in spite of the regulatory response to the credit crisis.
> Radical greens are not really that powerful.

But then why did Germany shut down all its nuclear power plants, plants which already existed and were running without major problems?

Radical greens are not powerful in the sense of having direct political power, but they are extremely powerful in that the radical green memeplex (nuclear is bad, GMOs are bad, pollution is getting worse, recycling is a moral obligation, humanity is generally a blight on the planet) is hardened conventional wisdom in most, if not all, Western nations.
I've found it much easier to navigate Windows 2012, Windows 8 and Windows 10 with just the keyboard than past versions. Maybe because it has forced me to learn some of the short cuts but I also think the commands have become more powerful.
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...what? How does that make sense? You think Reddit is censoring discussion of its own news website?
what on earth does that have to do with assessing culpability?
You could try Listhub, but they charge. Any other source would most likely not be legally obtained.
This just about the most blatant nerd sniping that I've seen. "The Flux architecture sucks; try to prove me wrong."
My girlfriend is still having networking issues on her MBP. I asked about the problems on IRC and was told that it was a regression that should be fixed in El Capitan, after updating to El Capitan the issue still persists.

I was considering buying an MBP myself but after seeing the issues she is having I am changing my mind, especially after this reveal from Microsoft.
PPS: Peaks 130$ per sift * 2 shifts per day call it 75 to 100k / year. 4 * 75 = 300k, 4 * 100 = 400k. So, yes they lost value, but far less than you might think.
It didn't actually come that close. Commercial paper rates went to 8% (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122186683086958875), which was not insanely high, historically speaking. And certainly part of that rise was due to Paulson's Chicken Little act.

Most businesses which actually make and sell things would have been unaffected if Goldman, etc. had been allowed to reap the consequences of their terrible decisions.

EDIT: A chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, showing that rates for nonfinancial borrowers were basically unaffected: http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2008/10/the-commercia...
The corrupt regulators who passed the financial modernization act of 1999/2000 should also go to jail.
None of solutions you've mentioned works in the cloud!

But yep. If you're looking for WAF for NGINX, these are good options.

BTW, mod_security is now compatible with NGINX too.
Good observation and consistent with a person close to me who got an SP3 for use in a college environment as an instructor. Their experience is that the keyboard is fine for typical use, but the trackpad is awful compared to what they experienced after years of MBP use (remedied by an external mouse). They have small hands and very precise fingers though, so I can see how they are potentially an exception.
Yes, except that that determination will be specific to the person doing the determination. That's the definition of "subjective".

Try submitting the same code to the IOCCC [1], the ICFP programming contest [2], the computer language benchmarks game [3], and the Flux Challenge (well, assuming they had the same problem statement, and that you could emscripten your C code for the Flux Challenge). They all have prizes for elegance. The only one of their definitions of elegance that is objective is the benchmarks game, which defines it as straight lines of code (and has resulted in some entries that most programmers consider to be abominations "winning"). It's different cultures, different judges, and different criteria for what's elegant.

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/

[2] http://icfpcontest.org/

[3] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
Not sure I specified, but what exactly does 'optimise' imply to you?
If you remove the Goldman Sachs alumni connections, and look at it from the perspective that the Fed and Treasury really did not want to perform any bail outs or rescues unless absolutely necessary, then the whole thing (sort of) makes sense. The tentacles of AIG reached far and wide, to such things as insurance on commercial jet liners and if AIG had gone under, those planes would have contractually been not allowed to fly.

Yet it's incredibly difficult to believe the Fed and Treasury were completely against any bailouts, considering that 6 months before, a rescue package was offered to Bear Stearns, and the eventual purchase of Bear by JP Mogran was effectively guaranteed via the NY Fed's backing.

I want to believe it was for reasons other than influence by GS and their alumni, but that is a hard sell.
The deductive process on which Austrian School theory is based, is itself based on Logic. That's as formal as you can get.

> Math is refined thinking.

No, Mr. Poet. Math is an abstract science that can be applied to concrete fields. So far no one has been able to meaningfully apply mathematics to economics, or we would have computers that can simulate markets like we can simulate tornadoes.
I've been thinking about something vaguely similar for paperwork processing. It'd be nice to pull company name from recognising the layout/logo, and an attempt at reading the date out of the page.

Anyone know any resources or an idea for direction to get started on this?
Incidentally, I think this is the biggest reason bitcoin is going to fail. The demand for money changes, so you either have to pick between a fixed supply, in which case prices will oscillate wildly, or a supply managed by some kind of central authority, that results in an unstable amount of currency but stable prices.

I just don't see a currency working as a unit of account or store of wealth with such oscillation in value. Maybe as a medium of exchange, but then you're making every transaction cross an FX exchange (btc/usd) and I doubt that's possible at scale for less than what a scaled payment network (e.g. Visa) charges.
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Probably referring to the windowing system that makes it easy to snap two apps side by side, each on half the screen, while in Metro mode. You can probably still go to the "desktop" and multitask however you're used to.
Remember, we have to think about rehabilitation, otherwise segregation is just another form of punishment.

So, it seems that segregation implies: There is something wrong with the individual, therefore we have to keep them from being within harm's reach of the general populace.

This is a binary, on-off mechanism. That is why society, I guess, opted for unpleasant segregation, as a means of doling out a variable "fix" to the problem (mild for petty crimes, heavy for serious ones). Otherwise, you'd have to segregate each individual that ever does any sort of wrong, or breaks any violent law, etc.
And why exactly an embedded programmer should read "Effective Java"?
Is this challenge too trivial to really show the strengths of Flux? I feel like it would be easy to bang out an implementation in jQuery in about 30 minutes.
Metrics are subjective, too! What metrics do you choose? How do you value them? How do you interpret them?

Computers especially but science generally lead people to favor the quantifiable to a pathological degree. Software development, like most other complex endeavors, is stubbornly resistant to predictive quantification.

It's also easy to criticize other people's work, but it's a lazy path to being right. There are an infinite number of ways in which something can be considered inadequate or a failure. The number of ways in which a something is good or useful is much smaller. Find the terms on which it's trying to succeed and criticize it there, if you have to criticize something. But introducing your own yardstick and saying "you failed!" is cheap.
Pretty sure it's just one of their CDN's failing.
Apple isn't exactly who I would point to as a good comparison. They have plenty of overdesigned pages: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
In SSH's case public-key authentication simply involves signing datastructure that depends on the initial DH exchange. This does away with need to exchange some additional challenges and also binds the authentication to the encrypted channel.

Canonical protocol that involves generating (in this case symmetric) keys from passwords is Kerberos. Implementing same idea with asymmetric crypto is certainly possible, but of somewhat questionable utility, because doing ephemeral DH and then some kind of authentication handshake is both more secure (PFS and so on) and more efficient. True asymmetric encryption algorithms (e.g. RSA) have ciphertexts of considerable sizes (in comparison to anything ECC or sizes of DSA signatures), while discrete-log encryption algorithms essentially involve doing the DH exchange anyway.

In other words: asymmetric encryption is rarely the right primitive for network protocols. On the other hand converting password to keypair that is used for signing or something like SRP is useful for some applications (for most applications there isn't any practical benefit).
Thanks for the response - I'm just keen to see 'how this all works' having read that Guardian article last month.

Will keep an eye out..!
VC money is probably the biggest investment bubble since 2006. A dotCom 2.0; I’m just waiting for it to burst.
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Hence "I can think of". That was copypasta from an internal wiki. I don't appreciate being accused of "disingenousness" from an off the cuff example.

By the way, your example is precisely 12 characters longer than mine and still multiple times shorter than the equivalent PS, so if your goal was to somehow disprove PowerShell's annoying verboseness rather than snark at me, you failed.
It's an Open Specification file format, at least:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.1...
As I posted in another thread: I was wondering and after some Googling it seems the dock is not using DisplayLink but some proprietary connector routing DisplayPort and USB3 which means it works with Linux well. This is awesome news.

The keyboard we discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334026 is less than an inch bigger in each direction -- I am wondering whether I could replace a laptop with that keyboard and the Surface Pro 4. Previously I wouldn't even consider because of the 8GB limitation but it's possible now with 16GB.
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Externalities can only exist with public goods, such as the commons or air pollution. The more public goods, the more chances of externalities.

Market failure is a subjective term that assumes a problem can be always be solved fairly (no one is made worse off). That euphemism tends to be used by those who believe "free market" (no such thing) solutions are inferior to state-imposed solutions, which often involve force and/or benefit the ruling class. There's plenty of empirical evidence to support that.
Experian and CGI Federal wasted hundreds of dollars building a "healthcare.gov" site that didn't work

That was very much a management problem; from what I posted to HN back when it was happening (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586705):

The government took way too long to get started "bending metal", it had the inexperienced/no experience on this scale HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services government bureaucrats be the integrator for this 50+? contractor effort, per the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583327), those changes continued through the last week before the launch, and full testing obviously was delayed until that last week. Underlying their inexperience, evidently CMMS didn't see a need for bottleneck monitors, given that we've heard of them being put in place post-launch.

And we learned they completely underprovisioned the database, and the specific one CMMS forced the contractors to use was unfamiliar to them, in paradigm (not a RDBMS), let alone the specific one.

And refused to listen to the people waving red flags started no later than spring of this year, when one of these bureaucrats changed his goal/desire from a "First World" website to one that wasn't "Third World"....

That this front end was a disaster turned out to be a major blessing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6701748 (more details as well).

As you say:

It's a desperate attempt by the cult of managerialism that dominated that 20th century to figure out how to run software projects without understanding software itself

The key to me being "without understanding software itself".

I've personally observed that many of the worst managers I worked under were failed software developers....
I worked for a muni-focused Wall St. firm shortly after the crash of 2008, during some of the peak flight to quality years in recent memory. My sole comfort about the ridiculous risk and crash that happened in the US was that somehow the interconnected system brought down the whole world as well (ex: the German landesbanks and bundesbanks). I say comfort, but I mean it's hard to put a label on such a conception.
zend sucks i use www.laravel.com or symphony.
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I assume you mean this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10052626

That's pretty awesome! I stand by my point that it's not easy, but I'm amazed by how effective that is.
there are 10+ lectures and papers on the subject. The very first lecture starts with:

>Money can be recognized as a technological development comparable to the wheel and of similar antiquity.

Nash proposes we can use science and reason to rationally evolve the circumstances and underlying tech that is money.

There is a specific paragraph in which he explains Keynesian banking is central banking.

He doesn't say he doesn't like printing money, he notes the relationship between supply and the quality. And that by controlling supply you can control quality.

There is no rigorous model for your eyes but if you know ANYTHING about this mans work you could be rest assured that he is thinking of something incredibly accurate and technological.

Here is his basic concept for a network of computers designed as a future ai system that we haven't reached yet: http://web.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/texts_and_graphics/Main.C...

Nash designed that in the 50's

In Ideal Money Nash proposes that the advant of an electronic money in the form of a stably issued money supply will asymptotically take the power out of governments and central banks to print money.

You sir, are simply oblivious to reality.

Read it again!

Btw Nash's solutions and triumphs in game theory from 70 years ago are MASSIVE contributions to not only economics but nearly all sciences: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/spring02/papers/n...
The latest version of .net actually has a built in timeout argument to the regex match function ;)
The number of rounds is decreasing, but the dollars keep increasing
Eh, what? The EU data privacy laws have a specific paragraph directly and specifically declaring that caching is exempt.

You can even use worldwide cloudflare caching for your site, and store userdata in the EU, and still comply.
I really don`t know who is Rogue Wave. But I wish them good luck and hopes that they heps Zend to achieve new goals, for the sake of php.
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Is jasypt message encryption even authenticated?

http://svn.code.sf.net/p/jasypt/code/trunk/jasypt/src/main/j...
Cool technology, but what do you do with the character once it is digital? It would inspire more creativity if maybe once kids uploaded their characters they could create a story or something along those lines.
or what you might expect if you let a recruiter try to systematically determine good programmers to recruit
Yes but Glass-Steagall kind of principles are the ones that are continually being lobbied and chipped away at to increase the capacity for risk in the financial markets.

See: Trying to treat municipal bonds as high quality liquid assets (vs. illiquid for holding purposes).
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..what's sad is that this is a completely legitimate question :(
That's a reasonable complaint but I don't think it's warranted here. WAF is the industry standard term for this kind of service so “Amazon WAF” seems a lot less unhelpful than most of their other names.
> Extremely enjoyable to code in and easy to integrate with C which makes integrating with arbitrary libraries and syscalls simple.

Can you really make arbitrary syscalls directly from Tcl? That sounds interesting to say the least