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"It unlikely to happen" is not a good strategy to rely on with systems operating at scale. There are about a billion cars on earth traveling trillions of miles every year, many of which will eventually be self-driving. At that scale, you don't need a malicious actor working to fool these systems, you just need to encounter the wrong environment. And even if the system is perfect on the day it's released, that doesn't mean that it will remain so indefinitely (even with proper maintenance).

Studying induced failure in neural networks may help us understand the failure modes and mechanisms of these systems.
That 2% is what you'd get charged by ANYONE with the skill and operations to manage that level of money.
Did you read the article? Some hedge fund managers earned enormous pay even when their funds lost money.
See also some of the official Piwik security tips: https://piwik.org/docs/how-to-secure-piwik/
Not really. I'm assuming most children cannot swallow pills and that most chewables and liquids taste badly.

It is pretty easy to get children to eat healthily - my nieces and nephew does so. But if the medicine actually tastes of a strawberry or carrot or piece of bread rather than a weird chemical taste, some of the struggle would be over with.
Piwik also handle dozens of Log Formats, check it out: http://piwik.org/log-analytics/

Github project: https://github.com/piwik/piwik-log-analytics
The title is incorrect and very misleading. This is not "salary" for hedge fund managers, it's total income.
I couldn't find the exact breakdown, but for the guys at the top of the list, most of the income is not compensation for being a manager, it's returns for the money they had invested in their own funds. It's not a coincidence that the guys at the top of the list are the ones that manage funds that had a good 2015.

To see a better breakdown look at the 2016 rich list at

http://www.institutionalinvestorsalpha.com/Article/3552805/T...

Note the following paragraph:

In a year when roughly half of all hedge funds lost money, a
number of frequent Rich List members are conspicuously missing
from the ranking because their funds finished in the red.

So for guys previously in this list their "salary" for 2016 was negative.
You as the beneficiary of a pension fund absolutely can exert influence over the investment committee of the pension fund. If there is a process in place for remedying a problem like this, how does it become another party's fault? Additionally, if the claim that "hedge funds do not add value across the entire investment industry" is true, are these pension fund employees not in some sort of violation of fiduciary duty?
True, but remember that JP Morgan doesn't run a hedge fund, and neither do other banks like HSBC that have been caught laundering money for drug cartels and got away with a few basis points of revenue in fines.
The problem is that "legitimate unbiased news source" is subjective. Unless you only allow direct press agency news - and even here we have often the discussion which words and language is "loaded" - you are define what is neutral and not.

Personally I would regard Breitbart or Newsmax are just on par with HuffPo - for you they probably aren't. That's why pretending to know what others have to perceive as "legitimate unbiased news" is such a delicate issue that should not be done in secrecy.

Non-transparency on blacklisted sites and topics will always lead to distrust and the expectation of one-sided political shilling.
Not just niche but bought as an investment, rather than leisure spending like Netflix is, so it should more than pay for itself. I also prefer my news as text not video (I am part of Generation X).
The waiter provides a service in exchange for money. Hedge fund managers literally move money around. Their value add is debatable.
Regardless of whether this story is true or not, how do we know whether and/or to what extent new media backhandedly affects political outcomes?

Facebook (if/when it wants to) could wield tremendous power in swaying politics throughout the world by adjusting which stories/posts people see and which they tend not to. How are people to know that they're not being intentionally manipulated?

(and if that seems like Conspiracy Theory talk, perhaps first consider that Old Media -- TV, newspapers, radio, etc -- throughout the world very often do exactly this.)
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Good example of what happens as the (formerly open) Internet becomes closed. I guess many people already equate "Facebook" to "the Internet", unaware of the processes running there. What if a future president bans left wing stories/ stories about Islam etc?

Sadly, it looks like we will continue to move away from the open Internet.

"In the near future - _corporate_ networks reach out to the stars." (Ghost in the Shell)
Crossrail is the 4th most costly 'megaproject' involving transport both under construction and 4th including all completed projects. There isn't any way to look at it where it isn't one of the world's largest construction projects unless you start looking at space stations and if cities were 'megaprojects'

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transport_megaprojects
"every dollar paid to Kenneth Griffin is a dollar taken from a pension fund." => I know it's not that black and white, but they could take a smaller cut / lower fees etc which then, in a lot of ways, would be shared in a fairer way than this. I know it doesn't work like that and there is nothing to do about it at the moment, but that is what I would have against this.
Read the story you linked to. Still only one person.

"This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul..."

You're confusing the multiple people who claimed they were asked to inject stories that weren't trending.

In fact, you have multiple sources who contradict the opinion of your source: "Other former curators interviewed by Gizmodo denied consciously suppressing conservative news, and we were unable to determine if left-wing news topics or sources were similarly suppressed."

Finally, underlying contention, that Facebook was at fault, is even denied by that same individual.

"there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work."

And finally, this is Gizmodo, so unless you have something from a trustworthy source, I would treat them as suspect at best.
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Facebook has already denied this.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/10/facebook-...

Although I don't see any signal in this, it seems like the obvious course of action both if they are and if they aren't supressing conservative articles.
It is possible to have plugins use their own DB and have things call out to that to retrieve info - e.g. CiviCRM uses it's own database to store CRM info (although it's also MySQL) and can provide forms for Wordpress pages etc.

You can also do some pretty nice data syncing/access between the two using Postgres' Foreign Data Wrappers to access MySQL data within Postgres - unfortunately it doesn't look like MySQL has a equivalent for accessing Postgres data from within MySQL.
diaspora was such an interesting project, I dream about resurrecting it often.
> AFAIK It's the lack of a human making the close doors / start moving decision that leads to need for platform doors.

There is no such need. Lyon's line D has been running fully automatic since 1992 without platform doors[0], the only major accident has been a drunk falling on the train having jumped from a mezzanine.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubdJ35NBrbE
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This project looks promising, but I can't find the link on the website to download the sources.
A balanced diet where you don't eat too much seems to be the other big idea.

Of course, both of these big ideas don't make good books or TV shows or special diet products.
I'm not sure it is that high, but doctors do tend to prescribe more instead of saying "no, you can't have the antibiotic for your cold". Part of this is a regulatory issue as well - I walk into a pharmacy here in Norway and you have to ask for some of the medicines, even though they are available without prescription. In the states it was different - basically no regulation. On top of the fact that medicine in the states is most definitely a consumer good paid for by the individual... in universal coverage, it is a bonus not to over-prescribe medicines and to make sure that those that need medication take care of themselves as they should so that costs don't go up - and people don't need more medication.

Making medicines easier to take doesn't actually address any of this outside of making it slightly easier for those on medication to take it as they should so that their conditions don't get worse.
If it was indeed paid as "salary", the taxes are huge. No sane hedge fund manager would to this (except that there are some other direct benefits of doing this). There are many ways of avoiding paying salary (and therefore taxes).

(Making money is great, I don't see anything controversial in it as long as nobody's hand is forced).
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...and it sounds like they initially suppressed and injected a lot more stories, too, so it's conceivable that this person was pissed off about these suppressions, but not about others that happened to agree with their own prejudices.

And then there's the issue that's these kind of algorithms need tuning - they're not intrinsically neutral. It's unlikely that conservative and liberal social networks/stories have the same kind of structures, and details of how the network is connected can influence what's trending. This makes the complaint a little absurd.

Not only are algorithmic results also biased, these manual corrections might conceivably be useful to correct that bias.

There's this naive assumption that there exists the One True Fair and Neutral ranking algorithm that's unbiased. But the whole notion is ridiculous: we want that bias, because we want to discriminate in favor of "trending" content - and "trending" isn't even rigorously defined.

And even if we had a rigorous definition, that doesn't mean it'd be the most useful definition. Elections have strictly defined protocols, yet that doesn't mean an elected US president has the majority of votes. And lest you believe majority voting is the answer, a majority elected president might nevertheless be inferior to a competitor by majority opinion (i.e. it's not stable)... and of course regardless of election result there's no guarantee that current opinions are a good predictor of future opinions let alone achieved results.

In short: not only is this just one person's opinion, the standard they hold Facebook to (no bias) is impossibly high.

Perhaps there's some amount of unwanted (by whom) bias, but dealing with that isn't as black and white as the complainer suggests.
TBQH, I do not have the slightest clue why I decided to implement that as a growable String type instead of a literal. Definitely warrants a change.
I'll have to give that a shot, seems like a nice compromise between fully automated solutions like Postgrest and a conventional ORM.
What about a proper, useful name that hints to the functionality? "libhttepoll" (because built on epoll)?
I have no influence over my pension fund. Pension funds as a whole are so widely invested in the market that there is no way that a hedge fund can provide an overall return. All hedge funds are a complex way of robbing Paul to pay Peter at the pension fund level.
And what almost always follows in that case is that performance starts to lag because most strategies do not scale with how well your fundraising ability happens to be.
The solution then is as the article points out:

> An apprentice painstakingly smoothing an invisible surface would be yelled at for wasting time. An apprentice failing to smooth a visible surface would be yelled at for producing crappy work. To become a professional, the apprentice learned to work efficiently but still do a good job.
Yes. But correct me if I'm wrong, but the article says that the managers made money because their firms are so large. Thus, they earned their 2% management fee regardless of performance. Should they be regulated? Won't the market correct when investors pull their money from the fund if they continue the losses?
Agreed. I think suggestions should be based on mood and emotion.

For example if I like 'dark' music I might as well like a song from a techno artist and a classical orchestra.

But this can be very complex. What some people find aggressive music others find a little too soft.

EDIT: by the way: because of the above I also think a recommendation for a song is better than for a band.
Minor quibble: the article is about RiakTS, their time-series enhanced version of riak_core.

riak_core's main strength is that it does key-value in a distributed/resilient manner, spreading values in multiple copies (at least 3) all over a cluster of servers. Kill one server, no problem. Need more capacity, add servers and it will rebalance itself.

The TS part is just an optimization built on top of that, to make values which are near each other in time to be near each other in storage, for faster range-base retrieval.
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In this case the phrase is a more artistic way of describing the beginning of a fight. Think of "John set upon Mike angrily" as John set, or selected, Mike as his target.

It's also a great example of the topic at hand because the same phrase could be used like "The book was set upon the table." Describing a book that was placed on a table.

Each version uses the same common vocabulary, to describe wildly different things.
Like I said before - that is a different problem. People need to have enough money to eat well without sacrificing electricity. Plus they need transportation or nearby grocery stores with affordable prices... in addition to the time and ability to cook at home.

How, exactly, does making needed medications help with any of those issues?

I seriously don't think people that are sick need to suffer to take their medicines, especially since a good number of sicknesses are not because of an unhealthy lifestyle. In the case of children, they have no control over that in any case.
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What does skill and operations mean here? It's an honest question; I don't know.

And that 2% is literally for doing nothing then right? You don't make it sound less disgusting now that 'anyone' does that?

Edit: sorry, read another thread of yours that 2% is covering cost; how can it be a % if it is covering cost? Cost goes up when the $ goes up? How does that work? Again, not trying to be annoying here.
If they make the same decision for many customers, then you can't just multiply the value of the work to do by that many customers. They still do the same thing, so the value to society as a whole stays the same.

That they can multiply their earnings over all their customers, and keep this insane income for themselves, is morally wrong and a huge bug in the way the world currently works.
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Yes. Postgres famously has been single-threaded for queries for a long time. The upcoming version 9.6 is finally introducing some basic parallel scan/join/aggregate functionality.

MS SQL, Oracle and pretty much all the commercial databases are much farther along in scaling up and making the most of a single machine.
Cool, you sound amazing. I'm tasked with maintaining an old part of the app now and would appreciate hearing how you feel this way
It may also be that someone who dies early from smoking related disease would otherwise have gone on to cost the insurer even more in treatment for some other longer term problem. I am speculating, but I would imagine insurers have analysed this.
Bummertown. This is my first open source project I've really broadcast to the world and I should have taken more time to research the name instead of just going for the first one that came into my head. Thanks for pointing that out!
I think it is more likely that computers will first manage to understand texts written in Simple English way before they are able to do the same with English.

That is not surprising, as that's exactly how humans learn to work with language.
That only works for first-party website/app combinations. E.g. if HN implemented "email auth links", there would be no way for any third-party HN reading apps to authenticate a user.
As you point out, the legal software as a huge technical debt, and must deal with compatibility issues as well. The consequence is that loopholes will always exist. Perhaps "rule by moral indignation" doesn't scale, but fixing the law doesn't work, either.

> My primary issue with assertions of immorality is that it's unquantified and completely subjective.

Who talks like a software developer now? ;-) It is more or less as you say, though.
But I believe it's better to let people judge for themselves. The same way people do make their own judgement about whether or not it's ethical for company X to outsource its production in country Y where working conditions are known to be terrible.

> But by making assertions of immorality or "evil"ness on the part of perceived bad actors, you're not offering any solutions, and instead starting the conversation from a place where no progress can be made.

On the contrary, it is one step further than "let's fix the taxation law" hand-waving. It also goes deeper than just law and economy technicalities.

It lead some countries to enforce more transparency with regards to the income of their MPs, for instance. It makes legal tax avoidance tricks and various forms of "soft corruption" a little more difficult.
A lecture about the same treatise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

Very funny to see that the modern word 'trolling' is used in this translation.
Author here. We hash the key so the number of bytes are negligible. So, I'd agree, I don't think it matters.
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> Clearly they are making something of value in someone's eyes.

Most of what a successful hedge fund does is moving wealth rather than creating it. The people it's moved to will no doubt be very happy to pay for that service, but that doesn't mean any value is actually being created.

Imagine a world where money literally rains down from the sky. Anyone can pick it up and use it to buy things.

But some enterprising people think "Hmm, I bet I can get a larger share of this money". Some of them put up big poles and attach enormous nets to them, collecting money that would otherwise have fallen in other people's gardens. Some buy planes that fly around catching money before it has a chance to land. Some find ways to generate strong winds that blow the money to where they can collect it.

Much competition ensues. Higher, wider nets! Faster planes with broader-area money-collecting apparatus! Stronger winds!

After a while, most of the money falling from the sky ends up in the pockets of a few organizations that can afford (and have the skill to develop) the most effective money-collecting machinery (nets, planes, wind generators) and have managed to negotiate legal rights to collect money falling in areas they wouldn't otherwise have had access to.

They very kindly sell their money-collecting services (this is how they fund the development of better and better money-collecting machinery) and, indeed, they provide good value for money: you can often pay them $1M and get back $2M. They are, that is, providing a service that is valuable to their customers.

But they are not increasing the amount of money falling from the sky. All they're doing is catching it more effectively than anyone else is able to. They do very slightly increase the total amount of money being collected, because their machines can get at a few otherwise inaccessible places, but mostly all they do is redirect to themselves (and their customers) money that would otherwise have ended up in someone else's hands.

A successful hedge fund is a little like one of these money-collecting organizations. It has developed effective ways of making money flow into their pockets rather than others', it provides that service to its investors at a price they are happy to pay, it may create a very little value by increasing market efficiency a bit, but mostly it's playing a zero-sum game.

> Why does everything have to be objectively useful and beneficial to the whole of society?

Clearly it doesn't. After all, we have all these hedge funds, and the people running them and working for them are very nicely compensated for it.

> the simple question of 'is something willing to pay for it with their own money'

If you make that your only question then you end up approving of theft and assassination, both of which are things people are willing to pay for with their own money. Unless you're happy with that, you need some other principles.
There really isn't much substance to this article at all.. tbh, I love node, and it's the tool I'm most likely to reach for... mostly for the breadth/depth that is npm, and fast prototyping in a scripting language and much easier usage as a coupled server to web clients.

It isn't the best for everything, but it's very good to good enough at many things. All of that said, tfa doesn't really give many hard reasons behind this... some fluffy stuff about reuse, which generally isn't so much, and the lack of disconnect, which there is.

As to scaffolding, I think there are other tools that can get you to 30% more quickly, but that for web + server, node will overtake quickly.

On the flip side, there are a lot of people who aren't very skilled with the style of development that tends to work best in node. I see a lot of OO (think Java and .Net) class oriented solutions shoved into JS problems. I bag on angular regularly simply because there's too much cruft to jump into an existing project quickly.

Depends on your needs though... more systems throughput, I'd look at go... lower-level can rust do the job... beyond that, node is my go to, and I'm happier here than I ever was with C# (since around 2000) and Java (pull my hair out every time I touch it).
Its generally accepted that unless there are changes there will be nothing in the communal pot.

Eventually, politicians will do something. I doubt millions of older, and therefore voting people will just accept there is nothing left.
> (I think?) twitter

Twitter definitely: they removed Milo Yiannopolis' identity verification tick without citing a specific reason. You might not like what he has to say (I frequently don't) but there have been much worse things Twitter doesn't seem to care about at all (someone threatening to murder Donald Trump). I don't want Twitter or any other media to become an echo chamber.
I don't know, but this could have as much to do with TfL politics as technology.
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A couple things I've seen on work improving:

- Much less reliance of physical papers and filing. Email, as much as people complain, is a much better record and easier to search than paper memos.

- No more suits and ties. Dress for comfort. (For most of us, at least)

- Much more flexibility on hours.

- No more smoking in the office. (Yes, that was a thing)

These don't apply to 100% of the world, but to some extent or another they impact most of us.
The very article you are commenting on is about scaling up with PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is excellent at scaling up with many small queries, but has problems with few large ones.
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You have to know either the jurisdiction (offshore country) of the company or the name of the person. What would be quite valuable would be a search based on the linked countries. E.g. companies/ppl linked to Italy.