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Barbara Weisel, chief negotiator for the US, works in the USTR, which answers to the President, who was democratically elected.

Koji Tsuruoka, chief negotiator for Japan, answers to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who is appointed by the Prime Minister, who is designated by the Diet, which is democratically elected.

For most parties involved (cough Vietnam cough Brunei) negotiators ultimately answer to democratically elected officials, and approval follows the respective constitution of the involved party. If I had not wanted a President who supports free trade agreements, I would have voted for someone other than Obama in 2012.

This may be a "backdoor agreement," but it is not an undemocratic backdoor agreement.
The title of "Engineer" doesn't matter. The work and pay do.
> I'm not trolling, I'm making a general plea for more cool headed reasonable human interaction.

That's great. Would you park and block somebody's driveway?
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The problem is that introduces a discontinuity in the market, where past training data may not be relevant to future price movement. It's not enough not just to not break the rules, but you may have to understand the effect of the rule change on the market.

"Hey look, these bank stocks are showing amazing relative strength on an overall down day. I better load up!" is a possible erroneous conclusion.
Because ultimately, stock prices move not based on "the market" but on things happening in the real world?

How does an algorithm interpret e.g. an Apple Keynote? By the time Twitter sentiment analysis (if such thing is really useful) gives results, an human trader already took a position...
Information not in the market.

Stock traders trade on rumor, fact and everything in between. They (can) look at who the company is run by, and how much they trust him, and look at the people in upper management. They can look at and understand news.

Part of the difficulty of the stock market is that it isn't a closed system: people make decisions to sell stocks based on the fact that they are poor this month. Until computers can understand and process all the external data, people will need to be in the trading loop.

The big exception to this is the trading the noise: high frequency traders trade against each other, closing the spread in bid/ask prices. However, they are essentially trading against other computers at that timescale, which makes them pretty amenable to algorithms.
How would an algorithm react to / speculate on the most recent news of, say, the VW pollution-cheating fiasco? What about embargoes or war breaking out between certain countries?
A human would have to go in to add that 'feature' if the case had never come up before though right?
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Not many people seem to know about it, but there's also http://messenger.com for just the messages.
The driving everywhere thing is what I can't stand about Minneapolis. Most of the tech jobs are in the burbs, which means driving. I try to mitigate the driving by living uptown walking distance to bars/grocery store... however with what I am paying for rent I may as well move to one of the bigger tech hubs.

The only way to reap all of the benefits of Minneapolis is to work/live downtown. However, most of the tech jobs are in the burbs so it's a problem! Furthermore, downtown minneapolis is pretty lame. All the cool events/restaurants and bars are not found downtown.
>He died in 1994, of cancer.

Why is this brought out in such a dismissing and ironic way? He claimed that there may be some treatments with Vitamin C, not that if you take a little a day you'll be immortal. Hell, there are so many different types of cancer, that even if megadosing C helped with one it probably wouldn't help with all.

He lived to his 90s. At that point it was either cancer or heart disease that kills people. That fact that he lived to 93 is pretty impressive in itself.

As someone who recently went on Vitamin D supplements due to low D in my bloodstream, I find it incredibly interesting how medicine is always changing. This knee-jerk skeptic idea about how everything but the current accepted status quo is "quackery" and mocking guys like Pauling is reprehensible. Just a few years ago, no one was checking Vitamin D levels. Now my depression and lethargy have been turned way down as my Vitamin D increases.

Hell, I remember being a teen with ulcers and being told to lay off the spicy foods. I tried to explain to the doctor that I never eat that and he shrugged and wrote me a script for Zantac, it being prescription-only at the time. A few years later H. pylori's role in ulcer creation was revealed and now the standard treatment isn't large doses of zantac, but two weeks of amoxicillin. My ulcers magically went away after that treatment.

Medicine is one of things that moves fast and the jury is still out on a lot of marginalized treatments, concepts, and research. I wouldn't be surprised if Pauling's research eventually fleshed out into some kind of cancer treatment, or at least as a supplemental treatment.
This is practical, however I strongly disagree with this semantically. The term should always be accompanied with 'artificial' or another name should be invented as they are vastly different fields. Search Neural Network, I assure you that you will no longer find biological information; it is littering.
Python 2 is dead.
That doesn't really refute the point though: American propaganda does lead to social instability, even if it's not at the level of boiling-over into revolution.
Pretty much this. Having an independent opinion about Putin immediately gets you called a Putinbot nowadays. MSM and its followers demand conformity.
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Yup.

As a British citizen I wouldn't recommend that anyone visit here.

I wouldn't personally wish to visit the US since its hyper-nationalist, gung-ho, war-fervour has been in full swing, coupled with the potential ass-raping at airport security by the TSA.

Even less so since the NSA/GCHQ stuff has come to light.
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Fortunately, not all investments are based purely on technical analysis for short run gains.
> NEWS FLASH: Wearing a novelty baseball cap to a job interview may not be the best idea -- cancer or not.

> In the control condition, the resume provided no extra information and participants wore a plain white hat. Finally, it is important to note that all confederates served as their own control—they entered some stores wearing the “Cancer Survivor” hat and other stores with the plain white hat.
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It doesn't make sense to call gay partnership a marriage. Marriage is a strictly defined cultural phenomenon meaning a relationship between a man and a woman with the original intention to continue the family by having kids.
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> The UK has a strong history of an independent judiciary standing up to the state and of a government that has been legislating to increase scrutiny and safeguards for decades.

Do you honestly believe this?
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You're overestimating the effectiveness of computers in taking in data and finding patterns. If you throw data naively at an algorithm, you'll get garbage. It's especially difficult to make sense out of trading data because of the sheer size and percentage of noise.

For any given trading strategy, a ton of thought, testing, and domain knowledge goes into creating the algorithm. It is not a black box that writes itself.

That said, computers are far more effective at certain tasks, especially latency sensitive simple calculations, just as calculators are far better at doing arithmetic.
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As someone who's lived in both the Dayton and San Francisco areas, I have to say: SF has a lot more going on and might be my choice if I were still single. But with a family, I'm a lot happier living in the Dayton area now.

It helps that my mortgage here it ~1/2 of what rent was in the bay area (and ~1/4 of what I would have paid for a smaller place in SF proper.)

Of course, the big differentiator in my case is that with working in software, I can work remote - I've spent more time working for California companies from Ohio than from California.
They're waiting in line...
You should read up on Geolibertarianism and Georgism.

Today's land value tax advocates consider graduated land value tax to be unnecessary and problematic, leading to artificial subdivision (and phony subdivision) of land. The point is that Jefferson, to whom libertarians pay homage, considered land monopoly a great evil and land value tax a remedy, as did many other classical liberals.

--http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html

This imperfect policy of non-intervention, or laissez-faire, led straight to a most hideous and dreadful economic exploitation; starvation wages, slum dwelling, killing hours, pauperism, coffin-ships, child-labour--nothing like it had ever been seen in modern times...People began to say, if this is what State abstention comes to, let us have some State intervention.

But the state had intervened; that was the whole trouble. The State had established one monopoly--the landlord's monopoly of economic rent--thereby shutting off great hordes of people from free access to the only source of human subsistence, and driving them into factories to work for whatever Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bottles chose to give them. The land of England, while by no means nearly all actually occupied, was all legally occupied; and this State-created monopoly enabled landlords to satisfy their needs and desires with little exertion or none, but it also removed the land from competition with industry in the labor market, thus creating a huge, constant and exigent labour-surplus.

--Albert J. Nock, "The Gods' Lookout" February 1934
"Although it's obviously a bad study, I am going to think its hypothesis is true."

The only reason we have science is because "common sense" is too easily fooled.
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Well for starters, someone has to write the algorithms. Not everyone has vast amounts of computing power to find the right inputs for the right algorithms or genius level quants to write the math which coders turn into strategies. There are so many small niches in the market that a human can still make a reasonable living if they find an area not traded by others aka "making a market". Now when it comes to competing with the machines, you pretty much nailed it.

Source: I work in electronic trading and have the past ~7+ years.
Good god. Nobody should have to go through that. From one internet stranger to another: my sincerest condolences.

Edit: Victor Hugo lost his daughter and subsequently wrote what I consider to be one of the most beautiful poems in the French language. Here it is with an English translation: http://www.frenchtoday.com/french-poetry-reading/poem-demain...

I wish I could do more.
Even more, my friend lived before(and living now) in Crimea are happy with "invasion" (???). But western people dont' interested in what people of Crimea think, the more important is what CNN says, what a shame.
Nope. Doing that is, from what I've read at least, 100% useless. But it's a pervasive enough belief that snake-oil salesmen have made a killing off it.
Welcome to Hacker News.

Perhaps you could flesh out your requirements a bit and tell us more of what you need help with?

Also, your profile contact information can't be seen by others so you need to put contact info in the "about" part of your profile if you want to people to be able contact you.
The problem with this is you're designing based on your current world view and assumptions. When does this type of planning ever work and actually stand up to 20 years of history? 40? 100? In the 50's the us was DESIGNED around the car and suburbs. That worked well.
It looks like HN has decided to go the hivemind route of downvoting anything and everything that defends Star Citizen, no matter the reasoning. That is extremely sad.
Scala definitely. I don't see why it's "better enough" to persist.

Node? Not until or unless you can build a nice fast browser-side GUI in Go. A Go version of GWT that integrated very well with the DOM and supported React-style UI elements would be interesting but nothing like that exists.
I can see how you'd like to hold the order of operations correct for readability purposes (especially if the states were labeled with digits), but I don't see where psyklic's method could produce an error for the divisibility test.

Your initial white doesn't change anything, since it brings you back to the starting node. Any whites after the the final digit either keep you on the starting node or keep you in the graph where.
You're asking the wrong question. That's just one case where the computer doesn't understand the human side of things.

What you should be wondering is what are some cases where there is absolutely no advantage to using a computer. Look up the story of "George Soros breaks the bank of England." Or Hedge funds shorting Volkswagen when it was the most expensive stock in the world. Only to find out that Porsche owns 75% of it.
I looked into perceptron, but it seemed overkill and I didn't want to write a classifier from scratch in Ruby or Java. I wasn't previously aware of MaxEnt, which looks cool. Bayes is nice for the data I'm looking at, because my features are pretty independent.
This is a brilliant post! I love the idea of scaring away tourists by making it more touristy.
Can you elaborate on how Japanese has benefited you? I'm heading over there for a few weeks next year and am considering learning Hiragana/Katakana before I go.
There's this post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7717242
As noted, the church in question was left that way to serve as a memorial. The "courthouse" you mention was destroyed in World War 2, however the "rebuilding" is something that just started in the last few years. During the time that Germany was divided, East Germany had their parliament building there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Republic,_Berlin

That was torn down in 2008 and now the new "city palace" is being built in its place, with a facade that is similar to the original palace.
(anon8764 was downvoted when I wrote this.)

I disagree but still upvoted this to get it to 0. I find the tought interesting but wrong. It seems more suffering is caused by various misguided attempts at refactoring culture etc and less by technology.

National socialism and communism are two widely known attempts at refactoring culture that has created more misery than all technological advances combined so far.
Strictly defined by whom? It doesn't have that definition for me anyway.
Surprisingly, I actually did a fair bit of research into this field.

Both rail guns and light gas guns cap out at around 6km/s, and you really want 8km/s (more actually, for hypersonic drag loss) for this to be economical. Otherwise you need to launch a large enough rocket to make up the 2km/s difference, and you stuck solving the rocket equation again. Except you've subjected your rocket to 1000g, and the odds of it being reusable are really small.

For rail guns, the plasma discharge on the rails limits your speed. Around 6km/s.

For light gas guns, the working temperature of the gas cannot exceed the melting point of the barrel (or get close), otherwise tungsten/steel will get into the working gas and slow down the speed of sound. With hydrogen+tungsten, also around 6km/s.

There is a better solution, though :).
The amount of information about the mentioned issues, available on the web is enormous. Anyone who want to read up on it can just use a search engine. I believe most users should be able to evaluate the credibility of the sources found themselves and I don't think me cherry-picking a few articles would add much credibility to the comment.
What about geostationary orbit wrt balloons? Do the balloons slow down horizontally a lot during the ascent? If not, what if we floated a rocket up most of the way and let the rocket do the rest?
It's even more reliable then, compared to public transit. I think we have one of the largest winter commuting populations in the country. The down side is the trails get plowed last, after the roads and highways.
The British public are largely misinformed and misled by fear, uncertainty and doubt by demagogue politicians and biased media.

Plus since the 1980's or so the people seem to have been conditioned into a very self-serving and xenophobic bunch.
At the very least the control group's hats should say "Control Group" on the front.
"Sense" aside, some of us were conditioned this way from Day 1, unfortunately. I think it's also pretty contextual, as I spent the first 10 years of my career at a marketing agency and everything was done in the name of client service. I knew no other way and it took me several years to unlearn that approach to work management. It's also important to note all the (admittedly ridiculous) perceptual games going on inside offices, where regardless of actual output you're being judged on hours spent inside that room.
It's a great app
what? If that was my job, I'd be looking for a new job faster than you can say "check your mail". In my holidays (2 weeks in summer usually) I dont respond for the whole time. No once-a-day mail checking, nothing. Never had problems so far luckily
"Wikipedia standards" sounds like an oxymoron to me. Many such standards are really just biases, political or other, and the quality of information is usually low. The only valuable section of many articles is "References"
Films behave a little differently than digital sensors. Films don't have perfect reciprocity characteristics (1/2 the exposure doesn't necessarily yield 1/2 the negative density, but digital sensors essentially count photons and obey the reciprocity law quite well), nor does slide film have the dynamic range of digital sensors, so the look tends to be different. I was recently taking some pictures around town with Velvia 50 and immediately thought "wow, this looks like it was taken in 1990". It really does give a distinct look. The sky gives it away: https://goo.gl/photos/ciawuX28bbBhnehc7

There are also other characteristics that come into play. With digital sensors, you're capturing colors as seen by the color matrix on top of the sensor; Nikon, Canon, and Sony make these differently. With film, you're physically activating dye, and the dyes are also chosen uniquely for each film. So the colors can end up looking different, both because of process difference and intentional changes of the color. (Velvia 50 does not provide what one would call accurate color, but the inaccuracy is quite pleasing. The same goes for the Kodachrome/Ektachrome which were very popular in their times.)
That's the nasty thing about cancerous cells, they can adapt to "feed" (via blood) on a wide range of macro- (glucose, protein, fatty acids, even ketones for some rare types) and micro-nutrients (vitamins, "antioxidants") just like "healthy" cells.

What baffles me is that even autophagy either doesn't seem to always work (easy to induce by water-fasting for a couple of weeks) --else every sufferer would do so until in remission-- or that we still don't seem to have pharmaceutical ways of jumpstarting/forcing "99% effective" autophagy..
Seems like there should be something like this for language exchange.
Or tabletop gaming.
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Maybe of interest: this is (amongst others) by Jeff Dean, famous for Bigtable, Map Reduce, Spanner, Google Web Search, Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, and many, many other things. He's a Google Senior Fellow, but also doubles as the patron saint of Google Engineering.
I was hoping the article would talk about space elevators, and not space planes. I'm eagerly awaiting materials science and geo-politics to mature enough to allow the construction of space elevators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
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I'm not sure which treaties you are referring to but certainly all trade agreements have always been negotiated in secret. And people who were against them have always complained.[1] Are you against climate agreements because they was mostly negotiated in secret?[2] How about US-USSR nuclear disarmament treaties (SALT I, SALT II, ABM)? The Iran nuclear talks?[3]

Do you not understand why they need to be negotiated in public? I guess you don't because you didn't even know they were always negotiated in secret.

[1] https://blog.nader.org/1994/12/26/naftagatt-deals-shrouded-i...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/how-us-ch...

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/01/us-iran-nuclear-bu...
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Using sentiment analysis. In fact, there are some traders (crazily!), which do just that.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/tweets-give-birds-eye-view-of-st...

http://tradethesentiment.com/
Screw that. Unless I've specifically negotiated otherwise - and trust me, you'd be paying me handsomely for it - my work day starts upon arrival and ends upon departure.

Now, that's not a hard and fast rule. If something breaks at 2AM, call me. If there's an upcoming hard deadline, count on me. I've come up with plenty of work solutions while taking a shower at home. I pitch in extra because I believe in my company, enjoy my work, and want it to be successful. But if you want the right to my out-of-office hours, break out the checkbook. And frankly, you can't (or won't want to) afford that sort of arrangement.
Your comment is interesting since it contains a lot of political extremism and insults toward people who hold different viewpoints, while also advocating censorship.
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It's laughable because nationality isn't an automatic criteria for trustworthiness. That's why security clearances exist.

For example, it's not hard to imagine a non-British citizen holding a clearance from a "Five Eyes" nation being far more trustworthy in that regard than a younger British citizen with a penchant for gossip.

Nationality is certainly a valid criteria, it's just not very useful on its own.

That said, I tend to agree with you; that line is probably best interpreted as an informal warning to set the tone.
It's laughable because nationality isn't an automatic criteria for trustworthiness. That's why security clearances exist.

For example, it's not hard to imagine a non-British citizen holding a clearance from a "Five Eyes" nation being far more trustworthy in that regard than a younger British citizen with a penchant for gossip.

Nationality is certainly a valid criteria, it's just not very useful on its own.