skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're overselling the bail-in provisions here. Frank-Dodd and the bail-in regulations it includes certainly introduced some much-needed improvements. But let's not pretend that the bail-in is either proven in practice nor a cure of any kind in truly dire situations.

The problem with the bail-in is that at the end of the day, if there isn't enough wholesale capital available, depositors are still on the hook. Indeed, we saw the only instance of the bail-in in practice (that I'm aware of at present) so far in Cyprus resulted in depositors having a portion of their savings converted to equity (in a nearly-insolvent entity).

At the end of the day, the risk still lies with the public if things get bad enough at a big bank. Through their deposits, through the FDIC, or through a bail-out, if the political winds blow that way.

The truly safest solution is to separate investment banking from depository banking again and to further limit both the size and the allowable exposure levels of investment banks.

I don't think the bail-in can yet be framed as a good thing. It's theoretically helpful in limited situations where enough wholesale capital is available (or can be made available) to solve a crisis of liquidity. Outside those boundaries, it induces greater risk on depositors. And in that situation, it may actually be good (in a perverse way) that the public doesn't know more about it, because if they did it'd likely increase the incentive/pressure on deposit bank runs.

Again, the solution here is to separate depository banking from investment banking. Or, put another way, to very tightly regulate the sorts of investments that depository banks can make. On top of that investment bank investments should be regulated more than they are today. And on top of all that, continuing with a rapid-insolvency process + bail-in would make sense for both depository and investment banks, should the need ever arise in either case (which likelihood would be greatly reduced through these further regulations). But the bail-in without these other measures carries risk and will be of only limited assistance.
Is there a way in which the Advantage 2's better than the original?
While I agree with you that my response is a bit harsh, at least you provided a real constructive reason for the downvote. I think my point still stands. The issues of Wall Street won't be solved until the apathy of this nation fades. Our citizens are coming to accept the behavior of elites as the status quo, and it's terrifying.

Overall, I'm done with this site. You cannot accomplish anything constructive here. This place has become a contrarian dumpster fire. People will literally disagree with you for reasons that add zero value to any discussion. It's to the point where if I exclaim that the sky is blue, some troll will inevitably show up and argue that I'm wrong and the sky is azure instead.
Hah! Sorry about that. You are right, it is poorly formatted. If I create one next month, I 'll make sure to clean it up and take yoru feedback into consideration :) But let me answer some of your points (that I didn't do properly in my post)

- We work very hard in hiring smart people. Trying to continuously improve our hiring process and make it better. When I say the possibilities are limitless, I mean that Walmart is one of those rare companies where you can play with large distributed systems or also move teams and create awesome mobile apps, or (I believe) you can also play with robots (I have seen them, they wear hats).

- Hard problems (in our context) is improving processes across the board and creating services that need to be fast (at a very high level) while still taking into consideration our legacy systems.

- I hope nobody looks for inelegant solutions to problems. But I have seen complex solutions to simple problems many times. We are not looking for that. We are looking for simple solutions for complex problems (but you know, simple is hard)

- Hey it's better to say best and the brightest than "Rockstars" or "Ninjas" or "Jedis" (actually I take that back, I like jedis).

- Heh, you are right I didn't mention any technology we use :). We use Kafka, Cassandra, Neo4j, Storm/Spark/Flink, Hadoop, Apache Cordova for some mobile, etc

- And yes, parts of the work has to do with creating distributed services, but not all of it, Reston is a small team so far and we are also working hard to create a great culture.
Thanks!
Just have to launch it from one of the counties that did not sign the treaty.
Are all equity classes wiped out in that situation? Is it only unsecured debt? What about other creditors and counterparties?
People give higher credence to information that they find themselves, than information that is pushed to them by an obviously interested party. This is the heart of why inbound marketing works and is a good idea.

The alternative to finding potential customers is to find where they hang out, then go there and inform them that you exist. If they really want/need your service, they will come to you. Once they do, that's when you get that contact info and politely but persistently pound it.
This is such high fallutin BS. Innovation is driven by demand. Yes - creating click ads is not as satisfying as [insert sexy innovation from developing countries here] but it pays the bills. How about we quit telling people what they should be doing with their lives. Our erstwhile OP is working on data problems - not exactly nobel peace prize winning stuff. The hypocrisy is astounding...
Calibre needs self-update more than visual polish.
The US doesn't need to - as the article indicates, most Chinese tech companies have no interest in operating outside of Asia. To give some concrete examples: WeChat (微信), which is entirely ubiquitous in China, has essentially zero market share in the US - parts of the app aren't even localized to English! Baidu is the biggest search engine in China, and it doesn't have an English version. Alibaba operates one of the world's largest online stores (like Amazon), but has no presence in the States. And so on.

Western tech companies want in on the Chinese market, but by and large, the reverse is not true.
But everything nets each other contractually. The gross position of swaps is an intellectual (and accounting) view. The only thing you can make a claim for in a court is the net position because that's your agreement with the counterparty (ISDA). The fact that this net position is calculated from a sum of gross positions doesn't mean you can go to a court with these gross positions.

There are some courts that would ignore the contractual agreements. Italy is known for its weird ruling. But I do not believe the gross positions are meaningful.
I don't think it matters as much as you think. If anything it shows that you are a more stable employee that won't jump ship.

Put all 4 projects on there and try to sell them as technically as possible.

I was at an unknown company (nationally) for 7 years before I left. I had no issues whatsoever getting interviews.
Shit. That's bad. Those CC camera clips make it look more like the time I spent as a bouncer than someplace where people are safely receiving treatment for their mental conditions.
No, I mean my student loans. My salary is far above what I would earn without the degree. The day before I graduated, the best job I could get was a gas station attendant. The very next day I had an offer for an engineering position making 5x the hourly rate. Since then, my salary has quadrupled.
Couldn't you use a named pipe to send data from each process to a single writer process?
Customers: http://www.viva64.com/en/customers/

John Carmack: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/22680046289094656... and https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/25894050786931097...
As someone who used to study a lot of neuroscience, I was really surprised to learn about the frontal lobe damage. The dogma has been that HM personifies what happens when there is bilateral medial temporal lobe damage.
Yes, it happened in the 80's. I was in Berkeley, CA from 1980 through the end of that decade and the uptick in mentally ill people in Berkeley was staggering. The place was politically friendly and has nice weather, so it was a magnet for people just having been released from institutions, when they didn't have somewhere else to go.

And, of course, police departments all over the country have been sending their homeless and mentally ill to CA and Berkeley for decades, as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4vxtyz/hash_fu...
Yeah, the phrase "button mashing" is fairly common in gaming.
It is an example. Not very relevant to the point you're trying to make though.
I'm not sure if that would really mitigate the too big to fail. If other financial institutions are holding these investment grade bonds and the bank fail I think we're just going to see a domino effect. The other financial institution that were holding the bonds are now going to have a big hole in their balance sheet and that could then make them insolvent.

So the primary bank that failed might still be standing but you'll have many other institution getting hit pretty hard because what they considered safe capital just vanished.
Dogbert's version (from memory, I don't have a link): "Don't take career advice from people more successful than you; they do not seek company."
> A Winnipeg mom was doing the dishes while her three kids, 10, 5 and 2 , played in their fenced-in backyard. A neighbor called to report “unattended” kids frolicking and Jacqui Kendrick was visited by a child protective services rep. The rep asked questions about what Jacqui’s own childhood was like, how she punished her kids, and where they slept. She even looked in Jacqui’s fridge.

Oh crap, I thought Canada was better.
Could you explain how React Native relates to React?
Stuff like this has happened in recent history in Canada too. At the federal level, and the BC provincial level. All in the name of fiscal responsibility, as if people existed for the sake of money, and not the other way around.

It's too bad that the people who founded the country didn't lay down some sort of law against a (then colonial) government sabotaging itself. We even have a vestigial British governor general who could enforce it for us. The word "treason" comes to mind.
I think it is long overdue for there to be a proper of biography of Gary Kildall. Really surprised that no one has done it. Know that I'd buy it.
Yes, at least in the early hobbyist phase. When you bought a machine (or parts of a machine, the line is a little blurry with S-100 bus), you usually also got the ASM source code for the BIOS. If you wanted to add a printer or other peripheral usually you had to make changes to the BIOS and recompile. It was actually pretty easy, the source code had a lot of comments and was easy to modify.

Later on, vendors such as CompuPro sold complete "turnkey" S-100 bus systems that were intended for less technical users.
I wrote a bios to try to get CP/M up and running on my IMSAI. It does require a lot of deep knowledge about the machine which admittedly was more common in those days. However I suspect most people bought a pre-packaged system.

If you were doing most of your coding in BASIC its unlikely you'd be able to modify the BIOS.
My first foray into the world of the stock market was very similar. My 10K initial investment turned into less than 5k in a matter of a few months as I tried and failed to pick earnings winners and time the market.

Lesson learned. It was a costly lesson but definitely not something I could easily forget.

Since then I've mostly been putting my money in cheap S&P 500 index funds and the only active trading I do is backed by cold-hard statistics through thoroughly backtested algorithms on Quantopian rather than my own ill-informed gut feelings.

And with this more disciplined approach, I have long since made back those initial losses. So I guess in the end everything worked itself out.
The living will is a separate exercise, which consists in having prepared all the steps to recover from a stress (selling businesses, closing credit lines, etc).

Ordinary equity will be wiped out.

Other forms of equity (Preference shares) will be fully converted to ordinary equity.

More senior debt (Tier 2 and Senior Unsecured) will be fully or partially converted to ordinary equity depending on the size of the bail in.
What word/phrase would be more apt, in your opinion? Marshall McLuhan wrote about this phenomenon back in the 60's

>Men are suddenly nomadic gatherers of knowledge, nomadic as never before, informed as never before, free from fragmentary specialism as never before - but also involved in the total social process as never before, since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly, interrelating every human experience.

-Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)
I hope you don't get voted down, because it's just the way things are. It is really mind boggling how many GOP supporters try and deny this. What has happened in FL since the early 00's is just criminal. How opponents of Rick Scott couldn't get him ejected from office is a mystery to me, if it's not solely "money in politics."
We don't live out of sunlight, so panhandling as f***
https://github.com/Taig/Communicator
How would the single writer process know that one 'atom' of writing has been received from each process? The named pipe might be empty if the sending process is filling it's buffer with the second half of the message.
> Singapore makes a particularly good testing ground for automated vehicles. Its manageable size (it’s about three-and-a-half Districts of Columbia), flat terrain, warm weather, and well-kept roads provide about as simple of an urban landscape as one could ask for. And its government is supportive of such technology, having formed an Autonomous Vehicle Initiative to oversee research in 2014.

I'd argue we already have too much testing under "ideal conditions." I want to see self-driving vehicles tested in snow, in rain, in strong winds, in fog, and on mountain roads.

Don't get me wrong, you absolutely want to start developing it under best conditions, but if they legitimately want to get this live by 2020 then we need to expand the scope to less idealised situations.
Humble Book Bundle: Start Your Own Tech Company
That's not what I said.

Do what needs to be done at a given point in time to release. Just don't soothe your conscience by putting a TODO in the code. 99% that TODO will never get done, it's just clutter and code smell.

If your code is broken you're releasing something that's broken which is probably going to end badly. If the code is adequate then it's adequate.

Often it's just perception that doing it wrong is faster than doing it right. Prefer doing it right. (EDIT- doing it right is often faster)
I didn't think my terminology was confusing. In fact, just using the context you were able to figure out I was talking about America and therefor meant the American meaning of those words.

Also, my labels aren't "wrong" they are different. For example, I wouldn't call your label of conservative wrong but would just say European conservative.
> Could be hard to implement this

That hasn't stopped anyone from implementing laws before. These kinds of laws are favorites for those in power. Now they have another tool for keeping them in power. Someone challenges a politician and they get upset? That's okay, just spy on them more. You'll be sure to find some kind of law they are breaking.
Theranos, Embattled Laboratory, Shifts to Medical Machine
Teach them to jailbreak/root their phone so they can spoof their GPS data and play without leaving home.
Free Monads using FreeK
Yes, it's well established. See below, in subsection dealing with activities within the United States.

https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockC...
It's really much better for each process to write to its own file, and the consumer can merge-sort the records.
Maybe they were worried about a downtick in "Florida Man" stories? This is one sure way to keep your state in the "News of the Weird" segment every week.
I went through a very similar period a couple of years ago. Would be glad to trade war stories (or just talk freebsd :) -- find my email in my profile if you like. Good luck, either way!
I voted you up because, although I'm not entirely sure I agree with you, it was very eloquently said.
Let's say this law does get passed? How do sex offenders learn about it? When they get arrested?
Unfortunately, many of those laws only apply in B2C contexts, not B2B.

That doesn't make the time dealing with it any less of a waste or make spamming any more ethical or socially acceptable just because it's a professional contact, of course.
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Where is the difference to what the USA and USSR respectively Russia did and probably still do to each other? Or the USA allegedly still spying on Airbus? If everybody does it, why only blame China?
I haven't seen behavior like that on any regular basis here. It sounds like you're describing a totally different site.
I've never used it and don't really know much about it but from a quick reading it seems that React is about building reusable components in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. React Native provides bindings to native components that you'd use in Objective-C/Swift on iOS or Java on Android.
> any sysadmin worth his salt will have automated the population of his authorized_keys file and alert on any unauthorized changes.

FTFY
Wireless 'Neural Dust' Could Monitor Your Brain
Feature flags should be used judiciously. They are better suited to frontend-type changes, enabling a button or something visible.

Flags to enable a web service call or the like is clutter most developers can live without.

I find architects perceive them as the perfect fix for release management. To me, they result in too much config bloat with minimal value.
Governments so often do things that are destructive that I welcome it when they merely do something that wastes their time.
I think we are in agreement. Russia has done fairly well in spite of their past economic system and today would be far better off if they had adopted our, American, system.
This is a great interview question. It's very easy to formulate and explain, and yet the interviewer can gauge the depth of a candidates os knowledge by digging deeper into any solution, with no easy 'perfect solution'.
HN clone written in Clojure and ClojureScript
Short version as I see it: many countries require their parliaments to decide on entering a treaty, but they may want to indicate their intent to enter earlier, for example during an official signing session. The UN has the official explanation, though. http://ask.un.org/faq/14594:

"Signature Subject to Ratification, Acceptance or Approval

Where the signature is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval, the signature does not establish the consent to be bound. However, it is a means of authentication and expresses the willingness of the signatory state to continue the treaty-making process. The signature qualifies the signatory state to proceed to ratification, acceptance or approval. It also creates an obligation to refrain, in good faith, from acts that would defeat the object and the purpose of the treaty.

[Arts.10 and 18, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969]

Ratification

Ratification defines the international act whereby a state indicates its consent to be bound to a treaty if the parties intended to show their consent by such an act. In the case of bilateral treaties, ratification is usually accomplished by exchanging the requisite instruments, while in the case of multilateral treaties the usual procedure is for the depositary to collect the ratifications of all states, keeping all parties informed of the situation. The institution of ratification grants states the necessary time-frame to seek the required approval for the treaty on the domestic level and to enact the necessary legislation to give domestic effect to that treaty."

There also is such a thing as "Signature ad Referendum"
Because one political party, currently mostly ruling Florida, has made a core mission out of defunding anything that benefits anyone not already wealthy, not part of a small set of favored programs, or "defense"[1] spending.

People with mental issues don't make political donations, rarely vote, and can't defend themselves. QED.

[1] We can argue about which was really the the last defensive war fought by the US, but by any reasonable measure it is at least almost gone from living memory.
To a large degree yeah - performance in "stupid algorithm games" is basically perfectly inversely correlated with "years since undergrad CS courses".
Have you ever been to Los Angeles? You might find the Hollywood-ization to be even worse. And frankly, the fakeness is everywhere.
In my case, I wrote a JavaScript library that was just good enough to be useful, and well-documented, but not incredibly full-featured. People need changes and additions from time to time.

Since I have a full time job, I turn down a lot of gigs (like "integrate your library into our code," rather than working on the library itself), but I think the strategy in general is good if you chase down all the leads.

If this looks appealing to you, I'd be open to forwarding leads to others if you can make me confident that you can do the job. Send me an email if so.

http://literallycanvas.com/
> While I'm no rape apologist, even someone who committed a sex crime against an adult in this case would be banned.

Or someone who hasn't actually done anything wrong at all. You can get on the permanent sex offender registry for peeing outside, or for taking naked pictures of yourself while underage.
It also sounds like it's not even his own money...
And Sweden's economic growth rate stagnated after it adopted large social welfare programs in the 1970s, and only somewhat recovered when it instituted market reforms in the late 90s and 2000s, including reductions in social benefits and income tax cuts.
Unit testing DNS failovers
>Perhaps they’ll also help with the Singaporean phenomenon of the seeming complete disappearance of taxis when it rains

Are self-driving cars able to handle rainy conditions? I'm not in the industry but thought this was still an issue.
Absolutely, it is approaching the problem from the other end, which is how do will still allow a large bank to fail without destabilizing the entire financial system.

But there is a separate push to reduce the size of banks through regulatory constraints:

- Introduction of new capital ratios (leverage ratio)

- Higher capital requirements

- More penal capital treatments of exposure (you have more Risk Weighted Assets against the same business)

All of which result in banks deleveraging across the board. And most large international banks have now several time more capital as a % of their exposure than they had in 2006, as a result of both raising more capital and reducing their exposure.
Ask HN: Possible to hide poll results until after voting?
At the end of the YC/Apply-HN funding experiment[1] they had a poll to pick which ideas would be funded. At your humble poster's suggestion that poll was changed so that the results were not immediately visible (to prevent the results from impacting ongoing voting (though it was still visible in the API).

Can we have that as an option for new polls? Specifically, hiding the display of results until after a logged in user has made a selection. After a set period of time (1-hour? 4-hours? 24-hours?) it could be made public for non-logged in user's as well.

This doesn't make sense for all polls (hence the request for it to be optional) but I think it'd help improve the results in a lot of situations.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639
Great retrospective about git hosting services.
I didn't see that. They're not arguing that the US doesn't have places with "flat terrain" or "good weather" or many of the other things.

Just that Singapore also has it.

Now they are not evenly distributed in the US, so surely in the US it will happen in certain pockets first.