skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of Matt Levine's consistent themes though is that there is often a very fine line between 'just reacting quickly to public market information' and illegal insider activity, so the scare quotes may be intended to imply a degree of 'you decide if you think this is completely above board'.
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Two things:

1) Of course, anecdotes don't prove the general case.

2) There's some conflation here between knowledge of toolchains and knowledge of software. Arguably, they are not the same--they might be orthogonal domains of knowledge. Knuth (who knows a lot about CS) does not use email, and I would be surprised if he used git for his books.
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Being fired is an unplanned event. So the likelihood that someone who is fired is in a similar negotiating position as someone who leaves a company unannounced is highly unlikely.

Especially people with families. When faced with the decision of "either accept something at lower pay or risk your family starving or eating in soup kitchens" I think the decision is obvious.

Then again they could wait 6 months or several years more for the perfect position. One that pays similar salary, is in a similar location which will not require a relocation, and similar benefits so no additional out-of-pocket expenses for things like health insurance. The higher up on the food chain you go the less likely you'll fall into a comfortable situation. And even lower on the food chain it's not a certainty that things will work out. It's far less likely they'll be in a position to negotiate. Your first reaction will be "first company to offer me something I'll take" because lower wage employees generally have far less saved away for situations like this.

So net outcome IMO will probably just end up being alot of people accepting less than ideal offers given their less than ideal negotiating position.

Also don't forget that the dynamics of these situations in rural vs urban populations are going to be very different. IMO you probably need to be in a city like New York or London for things to work out in a net-positive way for employees who are laid off.
> Second, the database is built on discrete topology internals, not ordered sets, which is more efficient for massively parallelizing most database operations, notably geospatial and join operations...relational databases could be designed with similar characteristics.

Anybody know how a relational join algorithm like this would work?
And these exchanges have historically been doing it. BATS has been around for about 10 years. But the initial players like Island ECN, Archipelago, and others (now merged into NSQD, NYSE, etc.) have been paying retail brokers for their flow since late 90s. This is what attracts big fishes to trade at their venues.

When you do the wrong over several times without getting caught it becomes a standard (read: make-or-take rebates)
How does this compare to http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/geospatial-index... ?
It is indeed relatively safe, in the sense that it takes thousands of times as much metallic mercury to kill you as it would take dimethylmercury. But vapors from metallic mercury have been known to cause acute poisoning for centuries; that article mentions a well-known case from 1810.
Non-mobile link without fake scroll emulation that lags and unselectable text: https://investor.logmeininc.com/about-us/investors/news/pres...
Just based on the bad things everyone else is saying about them, I have to do some research and see if they are a good or crap company. They just have a lot of power regarding my passwords, and they are an unknown to me, but , in the other thread they were seriously disliked.

Edit: I read some of the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491 and most of them have bad things to say about LogMeIn.
Matlab is quite a HLL, and it benefits a lot from GPUs. LabView is a HLL too, obviously.

Not to mention numerous DSLs (also pretty high level) running on GPUs (e.g., I'm running a derivative of the OpenSCAD language on a GPU, for a fast and precise slicing). As HLL as it gets.
How does this compare to http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/geospatial-index... ?

Nevermind, it's not open source.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359505
Not sure if good or bad...
And even more discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10359491
Very nice, I actually just met this guy (Nathaniel Burney) yesterday at NY ComicCon, got a signed copy of his first book for $10:

http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Guide-Criminal-Law/dp/1598...

I can't remember the booth #, but he was toward the back around Aisle 1200 for anyone who is going today or this weekend.
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Wasn't the completion of the genome in the first place a public effort that actually beat the private sector's attempts to finish it first and keep it away from scientific research? So not sure what we'd lose from keeping it open.
Further, separate the call stack from the 'display' or local variable stack. Conflating them causes bugs, is appropriate only for some code models, and makes it harder on tools. Computers didn't used to work this way; some paper got published about combining them and everybody after went the one-stack direction by default. It doesn't make a lot of sense today.
I'd really love for some objective person to weigh in about why all the negative reaction to this. Is LogMeIn a terrible company? I have not used either LogMeIn or LastPass.
I agree. His Bloomberg articles have been regularly rising to the HN front page in the last months. When I follow the link and see his avatar, I take the time to read the article.
Because you can't buy trust through an acquisition. You build trust, you don't transfer it through a merger.
Agreed; pollution is the real cost. But that wasn't said; not even implied. At least how I read it. That last sentence seemed a non-sequitur.
Seems like a smart move for selling bulk licenses to large companies.
I started getting those after creating an LLC. I've tried to screw with them but they seem pretty good at sniffing that out and they just hang up whenever I tell them I "need to go find some paperwork" and leave the phone muted on my desk.

I also started getting letters that look like bills for my LLC but are actually just junk mail for SEO services. Those ones really pissed me off. Looks just like an invoice with "This is not a bill" in tiny font at the bottom.
Me either. I was a big fan of logmein when they had a free version but it wasn't something I was willing to pay for. LastPass is though.
I think the illegibility of it is important if it is affecting other people's finances.
Do LogMeIn users have a feeling as to whether this is a good thing? Will they bring any visual polish, or UX consistency to the jumble that is Last Pass?
If you want to talk to them endlessly without wasting your own time, forward them to Lenny (phone 347-514-7296) https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
I guess I see why high frequency trades are necessary in the current trading framework, but looking at the situation from a high level, isn't it obvious that the resources being spent on microsecond level response improvements don't benefit anyone but the winners? Can someone argue otherwise?
That suffering is caused by ignorance, not a vaccine.
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> when the activity consumes a bunch of resources on zero sum activity

The thing to remember about the markets is that each individual trade is always zero sum, but the value of the markets comes from the aggregate total.

The behaviors that we want in our markets, price discovery, liquidity, easy risk management are all outcomes that are enabled by speculative market participants like market makers engaging in lots of zero sum activity.

So instead of decrying the zero sum activity what we want to do is drive down the price of it to the non zero sum participants. And HFT market making has been prodigiously good at that.
so it has to be big

I think you're putting too much faith in the usual meaning of words. Think about the wording of the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment (or 4th Amendment) and how different the legal meaning is from what someone who isn't a lawyer would expect.

I bet that "commercial scale" is "at least on the scale of that guy selling knock-off Nikes out the back of his van" after we make it through the courts.
In Sweden there are lots of websites where you can look up the phone number and retrieve the address of that person, as well as other people living at the same address. From this information it is rather easy to do reverse lookups and figure out the potential relationships.
What'd Make a Better Rocket, Nuclear or Ion Engines?
> we are unable to see how things really work because we are a part of that thing.

I remember when I was 14, talking quantum physics with my father, I said "what if everything is governed by a set of equations that by their very nature say that it is impossible to know what they are or measure them." -- just some teenager ingenuity that may very well be true.

For fun I like to entertain the idea that after we die an extradimensional "me" removes a Rift-like device from them saying "wow.. What a ride, that felt _real_". Has any philosopher written about this?
My cursory glance seems to suggest higher obesity neighborhoods tend to be lower income ones. Though that observation is completely anecdotal based on my life experiences living in different parts of the country.
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I think this should be actionable offense. But its been going on for years in one form or another. Used to get a big ad packet from a local dept store - with the bill mixed into the middle. They were hoping I wouldn't notice, and my balance would roll over so I'd pay charges. Instead I took the reply envelope, put my check in and stuffed it full of the ads too.
Any suggestions for alternatives? I need yubikey support, Chrome & Firefox plugins (Linux & OS X) and an Android app.
You're right that I don't know MMMs specifics. But I think at this stage I'm justified in being skeptical of anyone who claims to be self-made - far too many people gloss over their inherited advantages. It's possible he's one of the exceptions.

No doubt much of his advice is correct, and all of it well-intended. But one has to be careful about advice from people in very different circumstances. They can get it disasterously wrong.

Landlords absolutely do make large, unearned amounts of money. Think about it for a minute: MMM is a finance expert, why would he put his money there if it didn't generate the best return. The idle rich (rentiers) in general are hated, but landlords in particular make additional money through sharp practices. The profession inherently involves (legal) tax avoidance, because a landlord makes a lot of their money through appreciation of their properties which is not taxed, and their rental income is usually taxed at a lower rate than ordinary earnings. Finally, while it's unfair to pin this on MMM, many landlords take advantage (wittingly or not) of their tenants' ignorance of their rights.

Finally, when a rich person says "it's easy to make money", it's a very small step from there to "the reason I have more money than you is that I'm smarter/more self-controlled/etc." Which is often a lie; often inherited privilege has a much bigger impact than personal qualities.
Bangalore Is Getting Inundated by Creeping Toxic Foam
>and them going under may hamper investor confidence in future 3D-printing ventures

Could this be a blessing in disguise?
Breaking up the load/store queue would basically just be a way of increasing parallelism at the core level for free. You wouldn't be changing the amount of memory in caches, just increasing the rate at which you can issue loads or stores and the number of outstanding accesses the core could support. Well, you might consider a split L1D but there are lots of tradeoffs with that and you'd have to simulate to figure out if that'd be a good idea.
The Verge's page initially gave me a plain white page, but then I realized I was blocking JS from ampproject.org but allowing it from theverge.com, and that combination isn't supported. You have to either block or allow both.
I am constantly impressed and pleased with 1Passsword - both the ease of use and their constant stream of updates. My family has a shared password Vault for common passwords, and private values for non-common ones.
You should be using VeraCrypt (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/) rather than TrueCrypt. The authors of TrueCrypt even said to stop using it when they stopped maintaining it.
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"Using Dropbox for sync". It's just an option. Password db is already encrypted, so it does not matter which service is used for sync :)
Seems like a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8268020
You people are crazy.
Things I Learned in the Deep Learning Summer School
Also worth pointing out is that ECL processors were specialized hot rods, not in the main line of contemporary computer systems aside from supercomputers and the very high end of mainframes like the top of the line DEC KL10 PDP-10 CPU, Vax 8000 family, and IBM 360/91.

They were expensive to design and run (traded power dissipation for speed), and eventually CMOS caught up with ECL.
Really?

I don't remember Windows Mobile having any relevance.

Symbian was pretty much alone at the throne for years before iOS and Android.
Well someone clearly has a horse in this race.

Your comment is a bit obtuse, developers are not creating parsers and compilers. Elevators and calculators are very robust technologies that already work.

What I worry about is a new wave of engineers and developers thinking they understand statistical models and then proceeding to work at the big banks and have their models blow things up. If PhDs can make such disastrous non-robust models, how on earth is a random developer who took a summer course not going to do the same?

Now if the banks actually failed on their own, then by natural selection the less skilled would be out of jobs and people would stop trying to "short-cut" gaining this type of knowledge. But that's not what happens. Academics keep writing papers and hyping up specific techniques for which they can give conferences on, and the taxpayer bails out the idiots at the top.
Congrats to Bob and Joe and LastPass team. I'm a former LastPass employee and will be forever empressed by their work ethic that I saw. They definitely deserve it.
Huh. Gotta admit, I'm rather distressed by this, but I'm trying to think through it logically.

* They still don't have access to my raw passwords. Everything's already encrypted before it gets to them, and they don't have the key. They just store the encrypted data.

* They however do control access to the account. This means there's a point where they get all sorts of data on me, and while I personally don't mind, I must admit I felt a bit safer when I thought it was a smaller, purpose-built company managing things.

* Then again, LastPass hasn't had the greatest user experience lately. A mixture of simply not doing the data entry on some sites, and having a poorly designed UI for mobile that feels like little more than an extension of the desktop experience(which doesn't work very smoothly on mobile- it needs to be rethought from the ground up) means that perhaps the new things LastPass could do with this funding would make it more usable.

But at its core, this is a security company to me. Probably the only one I pay for directly. I love change and expansion in so many other industries, but I suppose I'm just not used to it here- perhaps that gut response of "I want my security to be utterly solid because of how bad it could be if it goes wrong".

This isn't quite a reason to jump ship for me yet, but I'll certainly be duplicating work to other services(which so far, I've found to be quite inferior).
What you say may be true in some cases but I personally think twice or three times about doing any hard research and development because the chances are either some megacorp or patent troll will eventually come eat my lunch with bogus claims of infringement and the associated high cost of litigation.
All of your points amount to equivocation.

True, the US can decide to exit a treaty. How likely is that, in this case? Not very.

TPP is not a real treaty, but it carries the force of a treaty.

Is the SCOTUS likely to find something unconstitutional? Again, it's true that SCOTUS could dump the TPP, but I think it's highly unlikely, given court's deference to intent of legislation, will of the legislators,etc etc.

The TPP just reeks not only of end-run around the will of the people, but manufactured consent as well.
Yes, i have it running in my BlackBerry! Im pretty sure, iOS and Android alternatives would be available.
I used to get calls like this on my work phone when I was working as a mechanic. The scammer would tell me to send him money with some sort of green dot card or something. He kept saying once I send it I will be enjoying financial freedom. I don't think they specifically target old people, maybe just people that are more likely to jump at opportunities before they process how ludicrous they are. I was in a blue-collar environment, maybe that was part of it, though I'm not sure how they would have known that.
No, Meldium isn't LastPass.
alright guys its time to switch to www.dashlane.com
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I'm actually more excited about the small scale generation. Solar is the only viable method for generating electricity in 1 watt to several KW. Wind also comes in handy here. I'm wondering what news technologies this will allow.
Would like to ask that as well.
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We're all embedded in an economic infrastructure, that's unavoidable. Its not black/white. Everything from the internet to traffic lights helps speed commerce, and all of us inherit benefits from society.

So circumstances are everything, that part rings true. We're born into a good bit of that, and trained into the rest. From accent, to attitudes about race and religion we spend our lives accumulating advantages and albatrosses.
> Once the relatives get wind of this, there is a simple solution. Get a new phone number for the person in question. And even more critical don't cancel the old one.

Or an even better idea - transfer the number to a reputable VOIP provider and setup the number so that it rejects calls from all numbers except for the ones you specify. Your loved ones can still call but any other scammer would get a busy signal or whatever you specify as the destination. You could even direct unknown calls to you (you can setup a time condition) - and that would give you the ability to add that number to the whitelist if it was a legit caller.

Added benefit - the service will be vastly cheaper.

> If the old number has been cancelled, the scammers know you're on to them.

I can guarantee you that they don't care if you are "on to them". They just stop calling because no one is picking up the line.
Hi,

I am not the creator - I merely stumbled across this site.
According to a front page article this week, milk contains a progenitor to NAD. There may be no causation, but it's an intriguing correlation.
Look at all Insulins - there are no generics.
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As a LastPass Premium customer for longer than they've owned XMarks and a combined product customer since, this concerns me. I'm not planning to change my LastPass usage until/unless they change how the product works, but I'm a bit more leery of steering customers to the Enterprise product now and will be investigating alternatives in that space.

As for XMarks, I'm torn. It has nice potential, but I feel like the company has basically let it stagnate warts and all. Some seemingly-obvious features like tracking changes to saved bookmarks (diffs, not checking the content of the URL) don't exist, and the ways to get archival data out to do it yourself are clunky and manual. What made me start wanting that was a browser going funky and losing a chunk of bookmarks - I had to kind of ballpark when that was, go back, dump a backup, find them in the HTML dump backup file then recreate and I'm not certain I ended up getting them all.
Yeah, I should. But Arch doesn't provide packages for it yet and there's no realistic attack vector against my usage of TrueCrypt, so meh. It's good enough until Arch starts shipping packages.
Are there plugins for safari/firefox/chrome and does it work on ios and have a nice little cli?

I'm basically preparing to bail on lastpass with this news but need to have all my bases covered.
1Password stores its encrypted data 'offline', so 2FA does not make sense for their product.

Even with LastPass offering 2FA, its just that, authentication, its not used as part of the encryption/decryption process (I did read somewhere it helps with your local cached copy, but it doesn't effect the copy stored on their servers)

If you wanted to use your YubiKey with 1Password, you could set a static password and 'split' your master password (half you remember, the other half is keyed in by the YubiKey)
How does a Gobo-style package management system deal w/ security updates for shared components? Do you rely on the vendor that packages them?
I don't think anybody is unhappy for the LastPass team. Many of us use LastPass though and so we are nervous about the future of something we trust and use. I don't trust LogMeIn like I trusted LastPass and so now I have to contemplate finding a new solution to a problem that I thought was solved.

So hooray to the LastPass team and condolences to the LastPass customers.
You are getting psds of iphone's own user interface...so that you can then put the mock up of your application inside it for say client presentation or to see how your app's design looks on the iPhone or to see if your app's design meshes well with iphone's aesthetics.
I believe Personal has a business plan for sharing passwords and data between teams. I haven't tried it though.

https://www.personal.com/
I hear ya. I knew that assertion was going to draw some criticism as its a judgement call about where we draw the line. Who's a novice and what's obvious? However I can't get away from my nagging impression that statistical validity is not inherently clear to the absolute best practitioners. Causality is the goal, and its notoriously difficult, even for world class minds. In my experience the only similar effervescent specter for software development is in security. Such circumstance,seem to me, to require great humility and introspection about ones abilities, but I suppose a little of that would go a long way in general too!
Nearly every good or service that you purchase is backed by a nearly illegible process of global trade. That doesn't affect your finances?
https://passopolis.com/ - I'm using this (formerly known as Mitro)

Open source
I think this is exactly it. I worked at a digital agency in London a few years back who bought a 3D printer (maybe a Makerbot one, I have no idea) because it seemed essential that a company working in that sector should have one - they were the new exciting tech phenomenon, and surely wondrous things would come of them. They were never able to work out what to do with it or how it could at all relate to their clients' businesses. In the end, the most exciting and interesting thing they managed to do with it was to print a miniature model of the tech director's head for use as a pair of earrings. On that basis, what hope does a regular consumer have of finding a purpose for them?

There are always going to be people who buy homebrewing apparatus - but their numbers will always pale in comparison to how many people just go to a pub or bar and buy a beer.
Trading is not a zero sum activity, trades happen because each side want what the other person has more than what they have which is a net positive. aka I want lunch more than money.

HFT trading is zero sum because the traders don't actually want or keep stock.