skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people with high intelligence, say 100 average IQ, Chinese for instance recovered just fine. The people who could not adapt were the less smart ones and their history was problematic long before imperialism came. Imperialism was just the latest in a series of subjugations for most of these people, or they were lucky that no one tried to subjugate them as was the case for the Native Americans in the US, the same sort of luck the US had once it had conquered the continent. In Central and South America, because of civilization, the Natives were often brutal to each other before Imperialism and whatever empire was running the show they were running it similarly to the way the British did it.

Right now if you look at GDP there is a definite correlation between GDP per capita and average IQ. Why is that? It's because the people with 125+ IQ are the ones intelligent enough to compete in the global market and not be subjugated by other people who want to exploit them. You want me to grow coffee and pay me .50cents/hour go screw yourself. Our country will sell coffee through our own brand of Juan Valdez coffee stores globally, and I will earn 20/hr to grow this stuff. It's black gold. How does that happen. It happens because of intelligence.

You see anyone in the Middle East producing anything, whether cars, software, whatever. No. Well why is that? Is it because of the shitty government? India's got a shitty government, but in a country of a billion you have a few million people with high enough IQ to compete globally for that stuff. In the Middle East first of all you get paid no matter what if you are a local so you don't have to compete, and secondly your average IQ is 80 so very few people among you can do the work even if you had to. India has a similar average IQ, but a huge population so... and no free money so they can do it and have to do it.

A more general point is those without power get screwed in human civilization and power is usually bought with money and money is usually gotten through intelligence. There are many other ways to get power, for instance the Saudis acquired it through the US by exporting them oil. The US basically did everything for them and gave them a ton of money to f* the world over.
If I accept a limit order from you to sell for $x and the price goes down to $x-1, someone lost $1 and it sure wasn't you.

All you've discovered is that when you sell a stock, you lose both the upside and the downside.
Yes. Maintaining 6 or 7 expensive suit combos is a lot more expensive than casual-wear.
Thanks for the comment. Glad it helps.
I must be repeating what I heard in March.

"Official: FBI team on Clinton email probe not near 150"
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/how-many-fbi-agents-hi...

The Washington Post reports "dozens"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/28/th...
Or that somehow they wouldn't be qualified for this if they didn't use Linux.
I don't think you are correct, there is a very broad variety of interesting topics that come across HN daily... I find it interesting the stories around hardware hacking in the 60-80's that come up at times... Others include RF/Radio... There's also a touch of art and politics.

Just because you may not find everything interesting doesn't mean a significant portion of the members of this site won't. I started out doing art work, I shifted to programming by chance because I had a talent for it, and it paid well. I enjoy it, but it's never been my first choice of careers.
I may be mistaken, but judicial immunity automatically waives your fifth amendment rights since you can no longer incriminate yourself. I can't really imagine the point otherwise.
Thanks! I was in presentation mode, for some reason, and didn't see the notes.
If you want to build a new house, you have to tear down the old one first. That's what people use wrecking balls for. I suppose the demolition in and of itself is not a positive. It is destruction, after all. But if your desire is to build a new house, you can't skip that step.

I don't think anybody wants Trump building that new house... but I don't think it matters who the wrecking ball is? Hence the original sentiment of the OP that it doesn't matter if it's Trump or Bernie, same result.
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For anyone else wondering who that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_I._Weill
Faster players can actually profit off you both when using a market order or when using a limit order. Interestingly, for small retail trades in liquid stocks, using a market order can be better as the internalizer software classes you as "dumb retail", giving you the best fill (as they need to make their 605 reports look good).

An excellent explainer can be found at http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/What-Every-Retail-Investor-Needs-...
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Can you explain the mechanism by which they steal? I.e., the concrete sequence of messages and trades?
> if it compiles, then it just seems to work

That's exactly been my experience with Elm.

For example, on a web project I had been working on I decided to add the 'search' feature; the very first change[1] actually worked! This is generally not possible with JavaScript.

[1] https://github.com/srid/chronicle/commit/4a6c18147bf1596b234...
Also a non-monetary incentive for scientist types. It shows your peers you have accomplished something and could be useful for future employment. Not everyone is motivated to start a business. When I was in private industry I was someimes allowed to patent something before publishing it.
For those who like to watch talks, I found one on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW1OEQxcjZc
It could be, but it could be not, so the "looks like" is very appropriate. Emilio Estévez may not be as common as John Smith, but it is not a very rare name/surname combination either.
Genetic algorithms are also immensely slow, perhaps too slow to be useful on a very large dataset.
Powell and Rice did not operate their own unsecured private email servers.
I'd have to look into it, haven't checked out mio in months, but I don't see any reason why it couldn't be compatible with it. Any particular reason?
Snowdens's purpose was to undermine the intelligence apparatus of the US, while that clearly was not Petraeus's intent.
Spending time marking it is just a means to an end. Even if you hide (or don't have) all the markings, it's still classified.

The end being, proper handling.
"In this way, Elm is the BSD to JavaScript's GNU/Linux."

Is there X such that X is the Plan9 to Elm's BSD?
> the companies acted in self interest

Sun, could, at least, make a profit building workstations and servers and licensing chips.

It's actually very sad they don't build those SPARC desktops anymore.
This is a bit funny because Mercurial is partly named after Larry.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mercurial_general/c3_SM3p7S1...
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>Nowadays I just use whatever defaults are there. Probably the only customizations I do are related to power management and what should happen when closing the laptop lid.

Same boat. After ~15 years of nearly daily fighting with computers to do the right thing. Fighting with them to look pretty WHILE doing the right thing just seemed like wasted effort.

Also modern slackware is pretty nice.
One possibility is that GP is thinking that "life expectancy was 25, so 20 means you're an old geezer on the deathbed." Alternatively, it may also be a reference to the extreme youth of Alexander the Great, who became king of Macedon at age 20 and proceeded to put down a Greek rebellion and then conquer Thrace, Persia, Egypt, Bactria, cross the Hindu Kush, conquer bits of India (then unknown to the Greeks) and was only stopped from going further when his army said "it's been long enough, can we go home?" He died 3 years later, at age 32. Obviously, he is very much an outlier.
I imagine it depends on the pool and beach area. Most notably, the older management staff that overlook the lifeguards.

Anectdotal, but I was a lifeguard in my Highschool years nearly 2 decades ago. Scrawny at 5'9 140 lbs. However, we spent a lot of time training and practicing rescuing people. We made sure all our staff could individually rescue someone that is 250 lbs+ across the pool, tread water holding bricks over our heads and swim respectably fast, trained how to scan the pool so that there are overlapping eyes and no blind spots on each area. We were all CPR certified (however we deemed the lifeguarding a failure if you've already needed to resort to CPR due to drowning). We spent hours practicing loading a victim with a spinal injury in water onto a backboard (spinal backboard procedures), and even had EMS stop by to train us on first aid. Refreshers on procedures and training were done quarterly.

When not at the side of the pool, we're cleaning bathrooms. Good times for minimum wage. Even saved a couple of kids that wandered too far off into the deep end during summer. No one even noticed they were drowning.

I hope at least some of this provides you with some trust to your local lifeguards even if they are young.
The American Family Association is a hate group who also believe that gay people are obscene. I wouldn't trust their opinion on what is acceptable.
"Before" and "after" have sharp, non-fuzzy edges only on the macro level.
No, the broker can just not execute the limit order. There's never downside for the market makers.
How is step 3 not front running? It would appear to be the very definition; the wholesaler is executing an order before yours, without your knowledge, that will affect your order.

Is there an order option to prohibit wholesalers from trading before you?
> Trading companies, including market makers such as UBS , KCG Holdings and hedge fund Citadel LLC, are willing to compete for retail investors' orders because they are considered "dumb money" that shows the professionals where markets are headed.

This is contradictory, if retail is "dumb money" it's not indicative of the future direction of the market.

The basic deal with internalizers is that they just have to fill you subject to Reg NMS rules, i.e., at or inside the NBBO. The catch is that the NBBO is set based on the lit markets, where as a market maker you have to take flow from any counterparty. As a result the spread that gets offered reflects that built-in risk that some flow you get will be adverse. The internalizer on the other hand has the great deal that they can filter down their flow to retail only, which is on average much less adverse. This gives you some options - you can offer a tighter spread to entice business based on better execution quality, or you can use the extra headroom to pay brokers to drive volume to your business, or both.

Argument for internalizers: knowing the risk profile of their customers should let them improve execution quality (offer tighter spreads) over the lit market.

Argument against internalizers: transparency is king, if retail flow was driven to lit markets there would be less adverse flow there in general, and spreads would be tighten as market makers competed for the new flow.

As I work for a non-internalizing market making operation, I selfishly like the second option, but it's not really clear who is right. My guess is nothing is going to come of this investigation unless there some real shady stuff going on behind the scenes we don't know about - the basic premise of the business model is legal, even if maybe not optimal for the market.
I agree that there can be contradictions, but those contradictions don't stand in complete separation from the ideology like you say. Ideology can serve people in power, but for the average citizen it forms the way they think and conduct themselves, and that is where the problem is.
Neither fit the bill though - because not every function ever written in the language is annotated. To be nice to use, it should be an all-or-nothing affair.

I say this as a huge clojure fan - my clojure programs with dynamic types work great. I rely on predicates (functions ending in -?) in I/O, otherwise I'm sure things work.
Oh, I agree that a CEO might get away with it. That doesn't make it right.

Similarly, Clinton will probably get away with it. That doesn't excuse her behavior though. Might does not make right.
It seems a bit ambitious to call this true random without any analysis of randomness quality or predictability.

I find it very unlikely this will be shown to be better than existing RNG solutions.

It's clever, but clever in the way that sleep sort is clever, at least until proven to be of actual benefit.
Roman Catholics are pro-celibacy? You mean the priests?
RCS is patch based, the most recent version is kept in clear text and the previous version is stored as a reverse patch and so on back to the first version. So getting the most recent version could be fast (it isn't) but the farther back you go in history the more time it takes. And branches are even worse, you have to patch backwards to the branch point and then forwards to the tip of the branch.

SCCS is a "weave". The time to get the tip is the same as the time to get the first version or any version. The file format looks like

^AI 1
this is the first line in the first version.
^AE 1

That's "insert in version 1" data "end of insert for version one".

Now lets say you added another line in version 2:

^AI 1
this is the first line in the first version.
^AE 1
^AI 2
this is the line that was added in the second version
^AE 2

So how do you get a particular version? You build up the set of versions that are in that version. In version 1, that's just "1", in version 2, that's "1, 2". So if you wanted to get version 1 you sweep through the file and print anything that's in your set. So you print the first line, get to the ^AI 2 and look to see if that's in your set, it isn't, so you skip until you get to the ^AE 2.

So any version is the same time. And that time is fast, the largest file in our source base is slib.c, 18K lines, checks out in 20 milliseconds.
You have to ship the hardware with it.
Very nice, now that we have some good competition in this space - kafka, ddl and wormhole. If only Fb can open src wormhole, there will be some good related systems software to choose from and contribute to.
A couple thoughts from a Librato founder here:

- Appreciate the thorough and balanced approach you took here, there's a lot of great feedback, most of which helps validate our current roadmap and 1-2 things we'll certainly consider.

- The tradeoff of providing a true utility service where you only pay for what you use is that the actual makeup of your bill can become complex (think of your AWS bill). We do pro-rate usage to the hour right now (matching AWS), so unless your metric "lifetimes" are sub-hour there's shouldn't be a huge issue.

- There's a similar power/complexity tradeoff with rollups. Unlike some solutions that only rollup via average we track multiple summary statistics e.g. min, max, sum, count, weighted average. Managing the differences between these can be confusing in some cases, so we're currently working on a simpler interface to toggle between these. More details can be found here: https://www.librato.com/docs/kb/visualize/faq/rollups_retent...

- Mobile support is something we've been incrementally adding and will continue until it's complete e.g. the actual alerts page you land on from a notification is now mobile-ready.

- Tagging. In the years since we first launched (when AFAIK only OpenTSDB supported this) it's become clear that this is becoming more and more a standard capability. Which is why we've been building out a next-generation data-store, which supports indexed tagging and a bunch of other new capabilities. We expect it to be in beta this summer.
>And for everything else, there's Ports.

Ports are extremely tedious to use if you are doing anything even moderately complicated .
The curse of oil, they have been talking about weaning themselves of it for a long time but have failed to achieve anything significant. It's more about their economy than their own consumption.
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So you're saying Europe should self-identify as an organization of humans capable of their own autocracy and then use that self-determination to establish their own military assets, which would destabilize global security as yet another non-hegemonic nuclear player enters the space?

I stand by my original comment.
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What a classy response! And perhaps I put too much weight on one short parenthetical phrase.
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>The general theme is that Americans are done with the status quo.

And yet it's impossible to win a general election without appealing to moderates and independents.
This article glosses over a few important details.

The reason that end to end encryption exists is precisely because man in the middle attacks are possible, and always will be. This kind of attack is devastating for Telegram, because by default they don't use end to end encryption, and instead store the entire plaintext history of every message you've ever sent or received, all of which an attacker instantly gets access to.

For WhatsApp, everything is end to end encrypted by default, so the attacker doesn't get any message history. All of the contacts for the MITM'd user also get a notice that their contact's security code changed, and a comparison will fail to match. This is exactly what E2E was built to protect against.
An evolutionary argument could be made either way:

* overweight/obesity signals access to food or ability to sustain oneself (implying also being able to sustain offspring)

* underweight could act as a handicap (showing off ability to remain on par with more well-fed competitors)

The rational thing to prefer in a mate would obviously be a "healthy body" (i.e. neither underweight nor overweight, with moderate muscle build) but it's also obvious from any good luck at human societies that that isn't always the beauty ideal.

Talking of beauty ideals: on a less than evolutionary timescale we can see shifts in preference of tan or pale skin (e.g. historically fair skin was often considered more beautiful because it signalled wealth and not having to expose your skin to the elements).

There are certainly fetishes for all aspects and variations of the human physique but blanket labelling a preference for overweight/obese body shapes a fetish seems a bit subjective -- especially if you consider that as a technical term a fetish doesn't simply refer to something you like but something you are attracted to instead of a sexual partner (as a whole).
This is almost certainly not more random than this: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

It is a cool idea.
The cases are pretty different. The government isn't generally creating copyrightable works with the hope of turning a profit on them. They're creating them, e.g. as part of the mission of an agency. Think NASA photographs for example.

To be copyrightable, the work needs to exist in more or less final form. That's what is copyrighted.

By contrast, while what's patented goes beyond an idea, it may not be usable for anything until someone has spent significant money to commercialize it--and maybe not even then.
> If I'm buying with limit orders, can someone explain how I'd get a bad deal

No idea if this actually happens on those exchanges, but:

Suppose you place a limit order to sell STCK for $x and I only execute it (giving you $x) if the price goes above $x+1. Someone's making $1 on that spread and it definitely isn't you.

Conversely you place a limit order to buy STCK for $x and I only execute it (costing you $x) if the price drops below $x-1.
I came back to it recently after a year and a half long break and it has improved dramatically. It's starting to feel like something I'd be comfortable using in production.
> Alternatively, go for System76 or Entroware hardware. That hardware ships with Linux.

In both cases, it ships with Ubuntu, and doesn't necessarily support Linux (or BSD) distros in general.

I was able to install Debian on my old System76 laptop, but the graphics card and wireless networking have never been completely happy. Now that I'm upgrading, I'm going to get a zareason — I've been very happy with the desktop & laptop I've used from them already.

I used to be an Ubuntu user, but it got progressively more difficult to customise my machine to run the way I want it to. I don't want GNOME or Unity: I run stumpwm. Tiling window managers are the future.
I agree that a world in which absolutely everything ever recorded is available, and there is no risk of access ever going away, is superior to one in which I store my own bits, pay for my own disks, etc.

Let me know when we get there.
Somehow I associate "journal" with temporary/transitional data, but that's probably just me thinking of journaling file-systems.
Welcome to the circus that is the 2016 Presidential Election. She's running against "The Donald" ffs! The whole thing is just disgusting, top to bottom.
Since 4chan was brought up:

Goons and 8chan's /int/, with both groups having a large overlap between each other.
I don't quite understand how causality can be fuzzy. Can they detect the reaction before they decide to take action and decide not to take it based on this detection?
>You joined less than a year ago.

Cool it with that. Some of us regularly make fresh accounts, for various reasons, like privacy.

HN doesn't heavily revolve around points (karma/upvotes/whatever) and a who's-who of posters, which is refreshing. Ironically, your statement is pushing toward that type of system, which would bring in more of the very users you're complaining about.

The top comments are fine, so continue to let the little arrows on the left do the judging. This is a story about penis size, even the most serious commenter will be tempted to wise crack.
They should consider a better name.. Flow is already taken by a different FB team - https://github.com/facebook/flow
Yeah. I get it. But a lot of us are moving to lobste.rs. You can stay here and enjoy your interesting HN posts. I'm done.
But these things exist because people put money into 401k accounts, IRAs, and buy other "funds". That makes one sort of instrumentation of that corporation work in a certain, sort of negative-externality-prone way. That cross ( as in cross product ) the information-attenuating nature of hierarchy explains a lot.

As a corollary of Brian Kernigan's "debugging is twice as hard as writing programs", it should be clear that regulation is even harder - possibly many orders of magnitude harder - than steering a massive conglomerate.

I don't know how you design a ... non-atomistic corporation - a corporation that depends on governance principles other than those which align with Liberal atomism. If I read the literature right, atomism is sort of an inevitable consequence of Liberalism - as Hendrix said, "I'm the one that has to die when it's my time to die." How do we handle the problem of agency?

And I'm really skeptical of "holism" in general these days. It does not notch easily onto rigorous and empirical methods, and looks somewhat like a backdoor for collectivism. I dunno - maybe collectivism has matured but I'm quite skeptical of it.
Heh, to follow your metaphor a little further, where do we live after knocking down the old house with the wrecking ball?
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How did you infer Korean from the names?
I see barely any Korean names in the list.
> I'm also interested how open-sourcing BK will improve the other systems, too.

#mercurial in Freenode right now is monitoring this thread, very relevant to our interests.

Someone at Facebook in #mercurial right now is trying it on some Facebook repo, to compare performance.