skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was either this study [1] or another more recently that discussed how the only times our democracy/republic represents average people's interests is when those interests align with those of more powerful groups. Virtually every time they did not align, the government did not support the average person's interests.

Thus, furthering lazaroclapp's point that sometimes there are special interests (the church, companies, nobles/rich people) that are aligned with average people. That is beneficial for society, but it in no way is a solution to the problem. We need to actually restructure our government so it is not an oligopoly.

[1]
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
The issues with all of that Merger/Acquisition stuff are basically tax problems. Anything that locks in the share price of their stake in BABA means they need to pay taxes. The spinoff company didn't get IRS approval, so their only option to avoid as much as they can of that is to peel off the non-BABA parts of the company and then there might be some kind of share deal that could get approval.

Basically, cash for any of the BABA shares means they take a big tax hit. Share deals could maybe avoid this (which is what the "activist" investors are pushing for) but would need regulatory approval and likely to sell or close down the rest of the company.
Why banks charge fees
It's not particularly pleasant to get to some of them, and occasionally requires going at low tide. It's a rocky area, with some natural rock outcrops that go all the way to the water, and some of the folks have built out fences and rock walls and such in a manner that means you're likely to get wet getting through if it's high tide. I happen to enjoy that kind of strenuous hiking/exploring, so it wasn't really lacking in fun for me, but I doubt people just wanting a day at the beach would consider it reasonable. It might even be dangerous in some cases.

I haven't been to Malibu in a few years so mapping is not an option; I'd need to walk/bike around again to know where the "private" beaches are. But, pretty much if you walk in either direction on the beaches in Malibu, you'll find examples of it...some are more difficult than others.

I feel particularly strongly about protecting the commons, like parks and beaches and waterways, and Malibu rubbed me all kinds of wrong ways, in being such a "playground of the rich" while excluding everyone else. Despite it being illegal, the entire local government seems complicit in the heist of public resources.
The total size of the HFT pie is indeed minuscule, considering the amount of hype it gets.

Past the high infrastructural barrier to entry, and assuming they can stay ahead of the competition, the consistency of returns does seem lucrative, but the actual magnitudes of the opportunities are hard-limited by the nature of the time scales. You can't move any significant amount of capital in milliseconds and expect to profit. Compared to the average hedge fund, they are playing with pennies.
That’s simply a discrepancy in definitions. ”Democracy” as used in your quotes is not “democracy” as used elsewhere here. With democracy the people you quoted meant something more specific than the people using it here.

Today democracy is simply a catch-all term.
And once the condition is over they quickly revert back to being normal people where it's hard to imagine they could commit such atrocities.
I don't know that people don't choose C++ for performance reasons or for easy manipulation of low level stuff.
Games, high performance computing, embedded and legacy software are the main applications of C++, aren't they?

Some people on this website seem to blow the python 2/3 transition fairly out of proporotions.. Python 3 is really extremely similar to Python 2, and there are great tools to convert Python 2 code to Python 3 and vice versa.
Theoretical question: can the FBI create the modified OS without Apple, and simply command Apple to sign it with Apple's private key, so that it can be installed on this phone without entering the passcode?

Granted without the source code it would be quite difficult, but in theory, is signing the software with Apple's bootloader private key which is the same for each class of phones the only thing required?
unfortunately there's no LLVM backend for the xtensa cpu used by the ESP8266. There's a gcc backend though, so if someone has the time and skillset to port to LLVM, here's a way to become a hero ;)
If it's all treated the same that would be a massive scandal, regardless of the ultimate health effects.
What's the eminent domain situation in California? Could the government just decide that allowing the public to access the public beach is in the public interest and take his whole property?
That's cool! I just biked and hiked around until I found ways to get to places I wanted to go (with the help of Google maps satellite imagery). An app would have been nice.
Strange. Wikileaks never seems to leak anything from other countries, such as Russia or China.
Problems that Rust can't now address are listed in that RFC. Such as sharing of fields between definitions for instance. Traits don't address that.

See also these posts:

* http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/05/05/wher...

* http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/05/29/clas...

* http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/08/20/virt...

* http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/10/08/virt...
Sharing data layout between implementations of a trait is much more manual and tedious in Rust than it is in something with inheritance. You can often change your design to avoid that issue, but Servo, for example, needs to implement the DOM, and that's just the best way to do it.
It's odd that "more nutritious" keeps coming up; to the extent I prefer organic it's because it's "more sustainable" and occasionally "less toxic".
It is deeply conservative, possibly even royalist. Do you think propaganda has to be unsubtle? This is just appealing to a different audience than Rosie the Riveter.
Article is about mammals' sense of smell. However, following wikipedia trail I was surprised to know that bees and wasps are also used for that purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera_training
Yeah Free Pascal and Lazarus don't do the full Turbo Pascal and Delphi Object Oriented Pascal features.

I was going to write a book on Free Pascal, and an Intro to Pascal using Free Pascal. But my Pascal skills are so out of date it would only be text based code and not OOP. Free Pascal and Lazarus need some books written on them. But I'm not skilled enough to write them.

There used to be a Borland Museum that gave away DOS versions of Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++ etc. I think the current link is here: http://edn.embarcadero.com/museum/

I haven't tried it in a while. They have the specs on Delphi 1.0 but never gave away Delphi 1.0 which would have been a 16 bit Windows program.

I've seen versions of Delphi on Bit Torrent sites, but I stay away from pirated software. Sometimes the cracks are infected with viruses. Better to stay with Free Pascal and Lazarus instead. Besides Free Pascal and Lazarus are cross platform. Delphi isn't cross platform.

Trade Wars Game Server is still written in Delphi, it is based on the old BBS Tradewars 2002 written in Turbo Pascal. http://www.eisonline.com/ They went from modem connections to Internet Telnet connections. People still play it and buy it.
Ex-ESPN Bill Simmons partnering with publishing platform Medium for his new site
I'm not really qualified to comment and I didn't spend very much time analysing the paper. However, I'll comment a bit since reading nutrition papers used to be a hobby of mine. First, the sample size is relatively good - nearly 1000 people, taken from a similar area and over a long period of time (30 years). What's missing is any obvious mention of how the participants were chosen, so it's hard to see if there is any selection bias. However, I didn't look at the links provided, so hopefully it goes into more detail there. I mention this because I have often seen papers published in this area with obviously flawed sample selection. This seems better than most.

The main things that stand out for me is that they did not attempt to measure how much chocolate people consumed, nor the type of chocolate consumed. They simply measured the number of times a week "chocolate" was consumed (which could have been a large variety of things). The other main point is that they mention that there was a significant reduction in alcohol consumption in the groups that ate the most chocolate, however they did not try to correct for this. Just scanning through the data they present, I don't think it is possible to tell if the increased cognitive performance is related to chocolate intake, or a lack of alcohol intake.

So, it is an interesting paper, but I wouldn't go out and start eating chocolate because of it.
What Apple should have done is quietly comply and NOT set a precedent. Then quietly make it impossible to comply on later phones. Instead they're making a scene about an issue they probably will and should lose.
We can make up stories to suit a particular narrative. Or look at the evidence dispassionately. Maybe its not in this article, but well documented that Neanderthals were cannibals. Not tooth marks - butcher marks on the bone, a dozen individuals at one site that were related, all during a hard winter. Clearly an entire troupe of neighbors slaughtered for meat.

Then there are sites inhabited over decades by Human and Neanderthal in turn. That's where its clear that at least some Neanderthal failed to adopt the better technology.
When last I checked, V8 simply triggers a deopt when it encounters any ES6 syntax at all - so just putting an unused "let foo;" in a function will kill its performance, regardless of whether any ES6 features are used.

Of course, it may be that some ES6 features will still be slow even after they've been optimized for, but right now, as a practical matter, I think ES6 is slow simply because the engines don't yet optimize it.
Try reading your comments out loud.
A Gentle Intro to Monads  Maybe? (2013)
Cuba's Had a Lung Cancer Vaccine for Years, and Now It's Coming to the U.S
I disagree, and here's why it is different. If Apple had a "thing" and a warrant said "give us this thing", then Apple would be compelled to turn over the thing. But Apple doesn't have this thing (the software to hack their own security). The government is saying "make us this thing", ie asking Apple to execute the warrant - which is unprecedented - it's the governments job to execute the warrant not a private company's.
Unveiling the future's smart electric vehicle, #AtherS340
Too bad the newspaper decided to go with the "NSA is spying on x president" headline rather than focusing on the content of the spying (involving details relevant to Italian politics and history) which is clearly the intended goal in releasing this.

The responses here on HN are sadly predictable as a result and likely will draw a similar response from the public.

Wikieaks has never really had a moral agenda like Snowden in regards to why they are releasing the information in the first place. Assange has repeatedly stated that he simply believes all secret information should be released. In the process they hope to expose corruption in the political systems. The fact they released proof the NSA was spying on a foreign leader isn't the story here, nor it that really a big noteworthy reveal considering the endless Snowden leaks, so we should stop pretending that was the real goal here and dismissing it on those grounds.

That being said, the fact Wikileaks was capable of getting access to plaintext NSA intercepts is in fact interesting. Not the usual high-level vague Snowden powerpoint slides. So if we're going to play that game this is still atypical in the greater scope of the NSA releases in the past two years.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. That is what I wanted to know.
Couldn't find a probabilistic testing library, eh?
If that's in 2016 dollars, that's the same as half of an Eastern Span of the (San Francisco) Bay Bridge.
Nothing, but that would be terrible. We WANT Apple to do it because they could ensure the software is device locked.
+1
this course was very much so either
a) Do this basically exactly how we told you do do it, basically "filling in the blanks"
b) Predict the midterm elections (well fuck, this is an intro class, I'm really not sure what to do)

I found it to be quite poorly structured, and its lessons did not translate well into being able to do data science off on your own problems
The order explicitly requires the cracking tool to not be written to flash.

Just as easy? Maybe if you ignore the effort to create it and secure it. I really can't believe writing secure software is being trivialized in the comments here.
Yeah, I just pulled the title from the github issue.

I got it and liked the image for the project, I just think it's a little crazy this is a controversial issue and wanted to see what hacker news thought.
Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock the San Bernardino iPhone
The CEO made a public statement. Any number of his employees or security experts could call him out if he were lying. You think all computer security experts are in cahoots on this?

Cook could have lied and said building a special OS was impossible. But he didn't because he knows someone will find out. When you're facing a subpoena, you don't knowingly lie.
Apple could just bindiff to figure out what changed in the FBI's version.
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Which doesn't change regardless of the outcome of this FBI case.
Compare https://slawekk.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/probability-monad/ and http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/papers/PFP_JFP06.pdf
Why Big Tech Companies Are Open-Sourcing Their AI Systems
Read Boyd, pages 623-24. It is talking precisely about the United States v. $25,000 sort of cases, where property is seized because it is contraband or otherwise subject to forfeiture, not as punishment for a crime. The opinion refers to the "first statute passed by Congress to regulate the collection of duties, the act of July 31, 1789, 1 Stat. 29, 43" which deals with seizure of imported contraband without charging anyone of a crime.

Boyd distinguishes those justified seizures from the seizures of documents at issue in the case on the basis that "[in] the one case, the government is entitled to the possession of the property; in the other it is not." One cannot have a legitimate property right in contraband or the fruits of illegal activity, so seizure thereof does not violate due process.

The problem with modern asset forfeiture (which I think is constitutional, but still a bad idea), is not due process, but probability. Finding untaxed sugar on a ship carries high indicia of reliability as to the conclusion it is contraband subject to forfeiture. That's less true for $25,000 found in someone's car trunk (though statistically, that's highly likely to be fruits of illegal activity as well).
The order came from a public court. According to an article in the nytimes Apple asked the FBI to keep it secret.
A high signal to noise ratio means a lot of signal and little noise.

ITYM the opposite?
And they wouldn't just ask Apple.
I have no motives. I'm commenting on an Internet forum for fun. Should we continue this EdNauseum or let it go?
The surf there is treacherous. It's not the sort of place you'd want to ferry people to. Besides, there is other beach access in the area that is accessible from land. Perhaps such an action would have value as a form of protest. I'd take the trip, but I wouldn't want grandma and the kids coming along.
Wikimedia timeline of recent events
Yes, spying to promote the interests of the people of the U.S. is legitimate in a world with other states with armies and the occasional bin Laden, etc. That's different from spying to promote the power of the executive, its fave corporations, the spies themselves, their counterparts in other nations, and who knows what else. The government is in theory our employees, and I feel more threatened by these employees who act like our masters than I do by their legitimate targets.

Assange's quote in the OP is all about alleged abuses that I as supposed employer would want to hear about: "Today we showed that UN Secretary General Ban KiMoon's private meetings over how to save the planet from climate change were bugged by a country intent on protecting its largest oil companies. We previously published Hillary Clinton orders that US diplomats were to steal the Secretary General's DNA. The US government has signed agreements with the UN that it will not engage in such conduct against the UN--let alone its Secretary General. It will be interesting to see the UN's reaction, because if the Secretary General can be targetted without consequence then everyone from world leader to street sweeper is at risk."
>> In the fire, possibly started by a cooking blaze that got disastrously out of control

>> A skull... possibly originally casually buried in the river bank just outside the door of the larger house

>> The wheel... may originally have been hanging on a wall.

>> the people of this settlement lived on and in the water and were rich enough to all but ignore the abundant food a few feet away... Instead the bones and food traces reveal that they were eating quantities of lamb, along with pork, beef and venison, and various grains.

What is with the overabundance of conjecture with no evidence to back up such claims? Whose first impression of a settlement burned to the ground is that it was likely caused by an out of control cooking fire? Why speculate about a wheel hanging from a wall? A skull is assumed to have come from a burial? The lack of fish bones implies they ate no fish?

I'm curious how much of this comes from the archeologists versus the writers of the article. When I hear "settlement fire" and "skull", I imagine an assault on the settlement involving an intentionally set fire. But I wouldn't publish my baseless speculations in an attempt to fluff the number of words in an article.
Except you don't have to leave traditional banking for Bitcoin, or the block chain in general. Join a credit union. Our small business accounts accrue zero fees, my personal accounts have zero fees. I talk to someone who literally lives in my city (well lives in the city I used to) when I call the support number.

They form an alliance with other credit unions and they are all zero fee. I go to a credit union ATM near my house to do any banking I can't do on the phone app (deposit checks > $5k). I can use the ATMs in any 7-11 for free and even deposit cash. In a way it's like Simple in that I haven't stepped foot in a branch since opening the account. Even to finish loan papers.

One thing that Chase did better than my credit union is international wire transfers. They charge less and I am able to do them via web interface instead of calling the branch every time. It's actually kind of a pain and I'm thinking about looking into something to work around this.

In 8 years my credit union has never screwed up, continued to add benefits to my card, gives me a free FICO credit check and score every month, and approved me for a $60k auto loan from the app on my phone instantly. Their loan rates are nearly universally 1-2% lower than the commercial banks and the crap the auto dealers push, except for when they do 0%.

They also shy away from making bad loans. The mortgage crisis barely touched them. You want a jumbo loan? You better have some damn good credit. It was the fact that during the housing crisis they were barely touched that I changed from Chase to them as I wanted to work with a bank that practiced good lending practices and didn't need to make shareholders happy every three months.
Marchetti's Constant
India not to allow software patents
Right now I work in R&D for toys, VR, and IoT. I started as a straight up game designer, but I got very into programming and embedded electronics. If I went searching for a new job tomorrow, I would bill myself as a T-shaped HCI R&D guy with a deep knowledge of game design.
That Jefferson quote shows a lot of chutzpah for a slave owner.
Data flow has nothing to do with the hard problems you'd have to solve.
And also that they've always said they're going to help publish for maximum impact.

Like we'd expect otherwise.
Clearly you haven't looked over his social media if you missed that. It is full of nonsensical "progressive" posturing.

https://twitter.com/vkhosla/
Yep, so that is what we solved in this release. Title of the OP: "GitLab's fastest release ever". For more details see the announcement and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
I believe they're equally expressive, but the existing trait approach has a different run-time/memory profile. The issue linked in the parent comment has some info/links, and, http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/10/08/virt... is the latest word on the subject (including various links).
Hm it sounds like this problem is caused by having high barriers between developers and operations.

A configuration push and a code push aren't really different in principle, but a lot of organizations make them different in practice. You should be able to recompile your binary reliably and reproducibly!

Where I work, developers and operations work out of the same source tree. I can see a lot of advantages in this style and few disadvantages.
Biggest issue might be copyright to the image. I assume it is from one of her music videos. Can they claim 'fair use' without getting a C&D letter to take it down?
Android uses TPM chips for their disk encryption scheme. I don't see why Apple wouldn't be doing the same here...
You misunderstand the role of Rust's standard library. For "libc type roles" you'd be using libcore, which is a subset of the standard library that does no allocation whatsoever, and allows you to define your own allocators and do whatever you like on allocation failure.
Lol. Not just fake signs. There are also Locked doors. Security guards.

All illegal.
Investors don't think like that, and their opinion is what decides the future of the company. Shares are only worth something if you can sell them at a profit or if they pay a dividend.

A Yahoo with a declining profit margin and market share is worth less in terms of any likely future dividend. So the share price drops accordingly. Normally, this would make it more likely for an outsider to purchase the company as those that bought at the higher price would be willing to see either a small loss or a small profit (depending on when they bought) and close out their position. The purchaser could then sell the pieces or merge with another company or do something to get more revenue later on.

What complicates all this is the shares that Yahoo has in BABA and Yahoo Japan, which set a hard floor on the stock price (and lowers the potential upside for any acquisition, making it hard to find buyers for the whole company). However, they can't just sell out of those positions and pay off some existing investors and/or buy shares, as they would have to pay a hefty tax fee and probably tank the stock price as it tried to find a new floor.

One potential way out of this would be to find a way to kickstart the company growth so it would be valuable enough that investors would hang onto it. That hasn't worked. Another way is to try and just spin off the BABA shares into another company, give those to some investors so they can close out their positions with a profit, and the remaining investors can focus on the business. That got nixxed by the IRS.

So they're basically stuck doing the same chop shop deal that a "corporate raider" might pull, only while taking a huge PR hit and a hit to morale because they're supposed to be the "good guys". Not some "outsider" pulling a hostile takeover.
Someone created an app to show such areas and access routes. Can't search for it myself just now...