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Agreed - I've had colleagues (with PhDs) go to financial jobs, but they were not traders.
Oh I remember my highschool civics lessons, but I then went on to study game theory. Consider the incentive imbalance: if it costs me 10k hours to legislatively get one penny from every citizen, and the same number of hours are required to frustrate my attempt - guess who has the greater incentive.
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I know this is technically "new" information but there was a whole thread about this yesterday[0]. I don't expect anything more to come out of this besides further outrage at Uber having being mentioned.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11145663
I believe every Techstars batch does a tools survey across batch companies (at least R/GA Techstars in NYC did) then emails everyone the summary with bar charts.

The one I have is mostly about analytics, sales, and support tools, and unfortunately repository hosting wasn't a question asked. I also wish they would make this data source public so others could see shifts early -- for example the wave from HipChat to Slack would have been very visible.

Perhaps StackShare might be the closest open source of similar data.

http://stackshare.io/code-collaboration-version-control
But why would that be bad? It shouldn't require significant additional work, even in smaller cases. If the FBI is getting warrants to access things without actual probable cause, then we need to be outraged about that issue, not how they get access.
The line between trader and quant in electronic trading scenarios is pretty vague and has been for some time.
Would you also complain if Google came out with a rich text editor for Android written in Java? React is more than a library, it's an ecosystem. If you don't want to use the ecosystem use something else. Seriously there are like 50 gazillion other editors out there for you.

Your post to HN is not well thought out. Most of us on HN come to read insightful comments with cinstructive critisicm. I came here to see if anyone is discussing it's architecture, performance, potential extensibility, comparison with other editors like CodeMirror and Quill etc. Your comment, in all honesty, sucked.
This may be the Raymond Chen article you are referring to: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=...
When it comes to Medicare, there is a much easier win: just allow the government to negotiate prices. The government should have massive bargaining power.

> When Congress created the Medicare drug benefit in 2003, it specifically prohibited the government from negotiating prices with drugmakers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/drug-price...

Imagine making a deal with a company where you are one of their largest clients but you are specifically prevented from negotiating any prices with them at any point in the future.
Fact is that most people going into the wildness are dependent on the park to make sure they won't get lost. Learning how to not get lost and how to figure out where you are takes effort, time, and experience; I've seen people with the right tools and knowledge panic and disregard all logic when they realize they're lost. Smart phones, setup correctly on the other hand take zero time to learn to use, and are very very good at showing people where they are regardless of panic. I personally wish more people knew how to use a smart phone in the wild, more so than anything else; in part, because knowing this and using the phone in a blind drop test would help them value spending the time to learn more ways of staying found.
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> You get liquored up beyond the set legal limit, you get in your car, put the key in the ignition, and start the engine.

Not a crime.

> you put it into gear and keep your foot on the brakes.

A crime.

In the first case you are not driving. In the second case you absolutely, unambiguously are driving.

It's not a crime because you might kill someone, it's a crime because it has been defined as such in legislation. The legislation exists because you might kill someone.

Law is arbitrary because it has to be. And we have picked this arbitrary line because society broadly agrees that this line makes the most sense.

> In my opinion, you have to actually do some damage to be a criminal.

Then I'm very glad you don't have control over the law. I don't want drunk people to drive because I drive on the road, my family drives and travels on the road, my friends drive and travel on the road.
Unfortunately all we have is sand.
CA's property values are tied to the heavy market subsidies, one of which is low property tax and the political guarantee it will remain low. I understand many people would be screwed by higher property taxes but ultimately, the revenue had to be made up somewhere and its made up largely in the form of income taxes.

However, I think Prop 13's distortion effects are far worse than the alternative.
We're always excited to see this stuff evolve - a lot of the popular practices were established decades ago and haven't changed much since then.

I can't say that we've come across companies (YC or otherwise) asking for this specific plan though, unfortunately. In general, we try to keep the default forms on Clerky tied to what we're seeing in the market - so if we see more companies moving toward this, we'd definitely update things accordingly.
Even with a purpose built DSLR, you still have to frame your shot. I meant I don't need to look at the screen to make the phone ready to shoot. I believe the software can go a long way. It will never be as UX friendly as a camera, sure.
> Wall Street has been hiring physics & math graduates for a good while now, but typically as quants, not traders

Smart people have been hired as quantitative traders for decades, this really is nothing new.
Bugged on Firefox for Android - typing overwrites what you typed before.
Have you tried the Olimex version as linked in the article? https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/MOD-WIFI-ESP8266-DEV/ope...
I've purchased a few Olimex boards in the past and I've greatly enjoyed them.
I also know nothing about the limitations of the temperature sensors on smartphones (I don't even know of any phones that have temperature sensors).

What I do know is that whilst teasing signals out of noisy data is achievable when the data are unbiased, the possibility of biases makes it significantly harder, especially when you don't know what the biases might be. This can be a significant problem with all sorts of data that you might think were fairly good, including both in-situ and satellite measurements.
Summary: they are going to sell high pressure storage tanks for industrial uses while they work on their compressed air energy storage technology.
I'm not sure how useful the usual techniques for normalising sensors would be for moving sensors.

Fixed weather stations have corrective mappings associated with them. For example the station at the airport might be assumed to be 1 degree warmer than the generalised temperature for your city. It might be known to collect 5% more rain when the wind is northerly, and 8% less for southerly.
These mappings are very important, because they let you shut-down a weather station, and build a new one in a different location, and compare the data from the two.

if the weather stations aren't in consistent locations, with discoverable local behaviors, then converting the raw data into generalised data about the area is going to be very difficult.
Your original example was wordplay in literature.
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When I make a long comment, I like to see explanations about what warranted a downvote. So I can learn…
The problems that Prop 13 causes may be far larger than the problem that inspired Prop 13, but that doesn't mean that this initial problem (that is, highly unstable property taxes) shouldn't be addressed.

Personally, I think the work of Shiller, as outlined in his work "Macro Markets", is the best solution: insurance policies that homeowners would buy to protect against price changes. A variant would be insurance against changes in property tax itself, offering as a good hedge to property owners.
You wouldn't be able to run any programs from the hard drive, and when you reboot, you'll end up with no operating system.

Unless you're running FreeBSD (or Illumos) with ZFS and Boot Environments, in which case you'd just select a backup boot environment and continue working :-) Probably without your home directory though, as that is usually excluded from boot environments. But you can set them up however you want.

But if you're running Linux (before this update) on a laptop with terrible piece of shit firmware, you'd end up with a brick.

P.S. found a cool post about rm -rf / in my bookmarks: https://lambdaops.com/rm-rf-remains/ – you can recover a running rm'd Linux machine by using a running shell and /dev/tcp :D
disagree. It's not just systemd that could mount efivars as read/write, anyone could. So anyone that does will fall prey to this. It's firmware, and failing that, the kernel protecting you is a good second.
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For https://robigalia.org/, I decided to go with GitLab for a few reasons:

1. Free software needs free tools (I did not consider GitHub or Bitbucket at all).

2. Excellent team management and access control.

3. Excellent integration of their CI in the interface, with ability to run own build servers ("runners", in their jargon). This is critical, because setting up the toolchain needed to build takes some time, and I can use the beefy hardware I already have, without having to setup jenkins.

4. Lovely UI.

The only real alternative in this space without setting up custom infrastructure is Savannah.

Or, if willing to compromise on principles, GitHub, which has a lot of incremental downgrades compared to GitLab.
Yes, I was actually not counting Starbucks/similar chains at all in my analysis. I consider them more McDonalds rather than a real coffee bar.
Well, yes. If you are bad, you want what's best for yourself. But if you know that the other guy is bad, then you know he wants what's best for himself. So you set up the rules of the game to ensure that he can't get what he wants without you also getting what you want.

See the prisoner's dilemma. If both people are bad, they will have the worst outcome. If either of them thinks the other is bad, then they will also be bad in order to protect themselves. So the best outcome (you are bad, and they are good) is impossible, because they know you're bad and will be bad themselves.

So two bad people have a good reason to write a law preventing them both from being bad, because that's the best outcome they can get for themselves.
It's generally understood that it's quite effective to advertise to prior customers compared to say, targeting a geographic area.

Apparently it's about as effective as search ads: http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/16/90-of-marketers-say-retarg...
> Two things: plants aren't sentient

I don't think there is any coherent and useful definition of sentience for which no plants are sentient but all animals are sentient.
two-meter to me means HAM spectrum that requires a license to operate and they tend to have a much higher output.

Walkie Talkie is consumer and no license.

The commercial FRS/GMRS ones requires a $90 annual license.
Very interesting comment. We do have to realize for semi-complex to complex diagnoses, many different doctors will be playing different parts. If you have a complex/rare form of cancer, it's common for a group of 3-6 physicians of varying specialty to sit in a room and discuss your case.

Additionally, when you work on a software-bug you probably try a bunch of different solutions. Try it to see if it works, repeat. There's only so much information on a patient, doc spends some time reviewing and makes a diagnosis/treatment decision/orders tests. Wait a day or a couple weeks for results, then repeat.

And doctor resources are scarcer than programmers. It would be great to have 2-4x as much time with a physician when you are sick, but $$$.
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That's a lot of money to pay for a piece of software that only works on one phone that you don't even have access to.
Want any help?

I don't have any interesting answers for your hiring filters.

The culture you've built is very rare. I realized that if I felt that way, then I should try to help it become the norm.
It's illegal for a good reason. You may prevent emergency communication with others using licensed equipment. Incorrect use of the radio can also cause interference outside of the FRS band entirely. (Particularly with the Baofengs, which have poor/no output filtering and often cause "splatter" tens of kilohertz off the frequency you think you are transmitting on.)
To the degree that there's a fixed amount of housing (or, more accurately, a supply of housing that isn't increasing at a rate sufficient to meet demand), it isn't. The only question is who gets to live in that housing and how much they pay for it.

People who live in very expensive real estate that they own already have the option to take their profits and move to Las Vegas or wherever. However, I'm very hesitant to say that property taxes are a legitimate lever to force people out of their homes for the benefit of tech workers moving to California. Especially given that 50% or more of property taxes go to school services which longtime owners aren't even using.

Perhaps the rate of allowable property tax increase in California should be larger than it is or there should be other changes--including making it possible to build more housing--but we should be skeptical of policies that systematically force long-term residents to move away.
Something much worse is possible.

What if the NSA/CIA/whoever can already decrypt that phone if they want? What if they're very publicly showing limitations of their abilities that aren't real, so that bad guys use it as a manual ("follow these steps and the NSA can't spy on us", except they actually can)? What if they're doing this so that bad guys (as defined by them) continue to use and trust vulnerable systems, rather than looking for secure alternatives?

If that scenario is right, if all this is just theater, then Apple will eventually win this fight, and along the way, there will be pretty clear guidelines established about what the NSA currently can and cannot break. Only you can't trust that what gets revealed is accurate...
The first three comments were all variations on "this isn't new" so let's take that point for granted, and see what else this article gives us.

It's not new that Wall Street is hiring Ph.D scientists and mathematicians (that's been happening since the 80s) but what's changing is the kind of role they are getting hired for.

From the 1980s up until 2005 or perhaps even later, most Ph.Ds were hired in "quant" roles, that is, to build mathematical models that could price and manage the risk of derivatives. They were generally not in trading roles.

More recently (i.e. in the last decade) it's common to hire Ph.Ds as traders - that is, to write algorithms that are used to make trading decisions. This requires a rather different set of skills - instead of being skilled in stochastic calculus, partial differential equations and numerical methods, the quant trader is skilled in statistics, data analysis, optimisation and machine learning.

It's true that Wall Street has Ph.Ds hired to build trading models for many years (e.g. Renaissance) but the change is that this is no longer an esoteric fringe pursuit. It is seen as standard that trading desks at investment banks will have a large number of quant traders. Large European investment banks have heads of trading who are quants. Quantitative hedge funds are no longer mysterious and exciting - many of them use well understood models that have been widely replicated across the industry.

To be honest, I am surprised that it has taken this long. Finance is so obviously suited to these kinds of quantitative methods that only an aggressive rearguard action by voice traders has been able to keep them at bay. The question is no longer whether quantitative traders and their algorithms will largely replace voice traders, but how long the voice traders will manage to hold out.

Jane Street is an interesting special case. From my (somewhat limited) interactions with them, they are neither wholly voice traders nor wholly algorithmic. Instead, their researchers and traders build algorithmic trading systems which can be "driven "by humans. For example, the system will continually calculate a set of useful metrics that a human trader uses to make a final buy/sell decision, and trade is then immediately executed by high frequency execution algorithms. Or the human trader decides to make a complicated spread bet (e.g. long an ETF vs. a cost-optimized basket of the underlying stocks) and the algorithm goes out to execute the basket as effectively as possible.

I think there's an interesting parallel to "Centaur chess" [0] where the combination of a computer and a human is much more powerful than either of them acting alone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess
When I met Gitlab, 3 years ago, I didn't expect this. The product is so much mature, the UI is so much better and the feature-set increased too. I respect these guys. The competition is though out there. Github is _the_ place where many git users started and is the _de facto_ standard for open-source/show-cases or even tech blogging, these days.

There are a few things that annoy me as a Gitlab user (UX things), apart from the search/responsiveness of the application. Moreover, they improved _a lot_ the installation/upgrade process over these years. I'm expecting big things from you now :)

Anyway I need to say that these guys have been working a lot and deserve much credit. Kudos for you, guys!

One of the things that annoys me most is that the homepage of the repository, where you have the README is not the same where you have a file browser (Perhaps this is Github-biased, but is soooooo much better. Think about it :)
FRS = free the GMRS is not on by default and has to be programmed into the unit.
FWIW, Caddy's next version will be able to update the certs without reloading at all.
Some bugs found after quick testing:

- When adding a long paragraph, and hitting enter in between, the caret disappears from the screen.

- When typing some text, say "abc", followed by a large number of spaces, and then selecting everything, the selection extends past the width of the editor window (colored selection bar sticks out).

- In a long paragraph, changing to a code-block, again the caret disappears.

More seriously:

- In a paragraph of 10,000 words, the editor becomes really slow, even when just typing text. This is strange because such operations (i.e., typing) are local, and React is supposed to deal only with incremental changes. I'm wondering what is going on here.
And one more point: property taxes, as they exist currently, are determined by whatever level of taxation local governments can get.

A LVT, as correctly supplied, would not be determined by government, but rather the market prices itself. That is to say, it would have inherently less instability, as it would avoid politicization altogether.
> These are the people attending davos. They are the real problem, it has nothing to do with AI.

Not, it's not them. It you remove all of them, they will be replaced by other people (as nomenclatura and bureaucrats replaced the previous elite in USSR).

It's inside the system. We use money, hierarchy and laws because we do not understand each other.

If you want more justice you need to do the Judgment of Solomon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon

It requires smart people and it doesn't scale.
French here, can definitely second that, American coffee has improved a lot in the past years, but despite trying extremely hard, it just falls short. All cafés, brasseries and bistros in France use Cimbali, it's the best, made by the best.
Wait, the article cites Knight Capital with a straight face and doesn't bring up the whole "Whoops we lost $440 million due to bad software" [1] as a significant caveat to putting so much emphasis on the role of technology? That doesn't seem very contextually fair. Programmers, no matter how great, can still make costly mistakes.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-17/knight-cap...
There is a very clear and obvious distinction between the plant and animal kingdoms. Any attempts to qualify both as the same when it comes to their destruction is just a coy way to rationalize unethical behavior. Like I said, even if it were true that plants feel pain the same as animals, one would still be compelled to go vegan, since animals "kill" more plants than people do by eating them directly.
I may have expressed myself in a confusing way, but it was in fact my intention to express that while you don't need to worry about micro-optimization up front, you do need to worry about designing for efficiency up front.
That seems like an oversight....
> I'm a single OSS dev as opposed to a giant tech company.

Yes, but you are Marijn Haverbeke and they are not. I have more faith in your ability to make good decisions than I have in any giant tech company, TBH.
Unless there's techniques I'm unaware of, I assume you're talking about MAC address-based tracking? Apple has been working to eliminate that; they've been using randomized addresses during scanning since iOS 8.

The other possibility here is tracking via geolocation or iBeacon, which require an app with location services/bluetooth enabled. And in those cases the tracking is most likely based on Apple IDFA/Google Advertising Id, so you at least have the option to opt out: https://dev.twitter.com/mopub/ui/opting-out-interest-based-a... (assuming the app properly respects the setting).
and if you're going to do that Korg's new minilogue has a great omled screen that shows the waveform of whatever sound you are playing.
How is CodeMirror different from ProseMirror?
Perhaps this is what you were thinking too -- it'd be stellar to be able to run on a t2.nano or the DO $5/mo box, but it's also easy to understand why that wouldn't be a major priority for the GL team.
SFMTA is a truly awful organization.
Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes is an autoimmune disease. It is not caused by obesity. Most Type II diabetics do not take insulin.
You get an error along of you're sure.

You should try

rm --no-preserve-root -rf /
Why is it the OS's fault if the firmware can't reset itself to factory defaults? You're not modifying the firmware image, you're modifying a scratch area exposed by the firmware for the express purpose of the OS (ab)using it in any way it deems necessary.
Well, ipfs sounds interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
I believe this reflects the community consensus. Perhaps partly money, partly communication/coordination, partly technique. It's embarrassing, and comments nearby saying "we have something to learn" are too complacent. US predictions over CONUS should be at least on par with ECMWF predictions.
Psh, Jan Hendrik Schön showed in 2001 that carbon is superconducting at high temperatures. Just kidding; he was a fraud, but it's a fascinating story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schön_scandal
I know that the DNC doesn't exclusively use the popular vote to decide its candidates, yes. There's the "superdelegates". They make up, what, 15% of the delegates? So, yes, they can swing the election if the primaries break 60/40. It's not the most democratic system, I'll admit. But the people are not locked out. Their voice will be heard, and can easily swamp the voice of the superdelegates.
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If there's one place where just about everyone I know has done job interviews, it's jane street. They cast a very wide net.