skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Arbitrage is generally a matchmaking problem. You identify people who want to trade with each other but can't find each other directly, and you facilitate a trade between them for a small fee, taking on some risk.

The result is that if you want to sell, you're less likely to sell below much below the going rate if there are decent arbrigateurs around. If you want to buy, you probably won't have to pay too much of a premium over the market price.

Another point: assuming prices move "smoothly," as arbers get faster they make less and less money. Their profits go in proportion to the "crossing of the spread," so they make more money when the guy who wants to buy is willing to pay a lot more than the guy selling is asking. But if the buyer slowly puts his bid price up and up, the Nash equilibrium strategy for competing arbers is not to wait for a fat payout, because someone else will get it ahead of you -- you snatch up the deal as soon as it appears, when the spread has only just crossed enough for you to make a tiny profit. In the limit of arbitrarily fast arbitrage being detected and acted on, with no cost of executing orders, the arbers make no money at all, and the value traders buy and sell at the same price (paying nothing for the matchmaking service.)

Edit: market making is a different beast, and needs different supporting arguments. Providing a better price than the next guy seems like a worthy public service, though.

And of course this shouldn't whitewash abuses like front-running, which really do make markets worse.
You don't buy what? They didn't claim that it's impossible to deal with it, just that they won't.

And looking at Sparkfun's site, I see how stupid this is. For one model, both are available: 2 SKUs for technically the same board, one is out of stock. And a notice that buying either might be delayed for a few days due to address verification. Very consumer-friendly.

All others they sell as Ardunios only, and they either make them themselves (and license the US trademark) or buy from the european company, so they mostly sidestep the issue.
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I used an arduino to receive weights of coins from a scale and then trigger flippers to remove coins into various buckets depending on their classifications.
If I had to guess: patents.
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If that is true, then "racist" is a poor signal of anything, including dealing with controversial topics and conclusions.
This is one of the reasons why I'm in favor of basic income. People who get degrees in mathematics or physics can do their work uninhibited by the politics of getting funding.
Great to finally see AWS start moving to IPv6! I'm sure just getting S3 to support it was a massive effort on the backend infrastructure (in all their data centers around the world - except for China apparently) and they've going to spend a lot of time looking at the new traffic and tweaking their network.

I don't forsee just S3 access having a huge impact outside of Amazon though, since IPv6 has the biggest impact on end-users, and I presume most of those are hitting CloudFront, ELB or EC2 endpoints.

Here's hoping CloudFront is next!
This is not true, many commercial packages can be open source without the freedom to redistribute.
The Amazon Certificate Manager uses SNI, and you can request certificates with multiple hosts and even wildcard domains. I would imagine if you upload your own multi-domain certificate that it would work in the same way, but I have never tested that.
My point is that it's not compromising an existing expectation of privacy if 1) you have the option to buy an older car, and 2) you are aware the new car you are considering buying is connected to the Internet.
Google's load balancer does do HTTP/2. It doesnt have native websocket protocol support (you have to use the network LB for that traffic) but it does provide cross-region balancing.
VMware?

[insert pedantic "VMware doesn't compete with AWS" arguments here]
Actually, your Facebook argument kinda sucks. Number of people who lived without Facebook is likely on the same order as number of its current users (if not lower by now), and most of them had much worse education.
I would love to see Anonymous flock to an implementation of this. Hacktivism with a reward.
So this is why our API had a rash of 500 errors last night. We haven't been very happy with the uptime of this service, mostly because they do deploys that break things for a couple minutes about once a month.
One can argue that a municipal government is a better representation of the people in the city (who want broadband) than some distant bureaucrat in the state capital. But this allows state to overrule municipal.
> The Justice Department agreed in May to return half the money, without explanation.

That's about the ugliest thing in the entire story. It makes total sense if you're trying to defuse legal proceedings by making them not worth the price, and no sense at all if you're trying to freeze money from drug traffickers.
Throw in police unions, the private prison industry, the surveillance industry, criminal lawyers, ...
how much did ms paid for this?
I found samples here: https://www.integromat.com/en/browse
You're being downvoted heavily, and I thought I might mention possible justifications for that. You have an impressive density of third-rail-steppage on your way down the karma hole! :)

1) every sufficiently regulated sport seems to have frequent violations of these regulations. Clearly "nerds" (a term I find nearly as demeaning as "jocks") are not the only ones trying to hack the body.

2) Talking about people's health activities as both you and this article have done is reductionist to the point of absurdity. There are many ways people try to improve their health, some are performance minded but plenty are looking to improve base metrics like weight, body fat percentages and such. You can't describe all of silicon valley in a sweeping statement in such a basic area of human activity.

3) The false dichotomy between "nerds" and "jocks" is silly and false, at least in my experience. Anecdatally, I worked with an extremely competitive rugby player who was also a great functional programmer, and he's far from the only example I could provide. This is an 80's stereotype and seeing it perpetuated by the Economist (and then echoed) is disappointing.
Really neat. Especially the idea that:

"English may come to have a global standard that is not exactly what is spoken in any local culture"
> making trades in the past

The other posters' comments on QM are off the mark, this bit of TFA was a joke about special relativity.

If you can transmit information faster than the speed of light, there is an inertial reference frame in which that communication travels backwards in time, violating causality. (If the traders and the exchange are roughly comoving you won't see this effect, of course.)
I would guess there's more solicitors in Ireland.
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I'm a self-taught programmer with decades of professional experience and I don't think of myself as a "handyman". (My only college degree is a BA in film editing & post-production -- which was actually a very useful education, because that gave me the domain knowledge needed to start a software company in the visual effects space).

Your attitude is needlessly condescending towards programmers who don't work on something that you arbitrarily define as cutting edge.

You mention that architects benefit from a network of specialized engineers. That's really no different from what happens in software. The machine learning engineer is not automatically on some kind of unattainable pedestal compared to the UI expert -- they're professionals working towards the same goal.
They're not really equivalent. The Pi is a full-blown computer, for better and for worse. The Pi Zero draws 70mA at idle, while the Pi 3B draws more like 300mA even with most of the peripherals turned off. With a bit of tweaking, an Arduino will run for months on a coin cell.
Yes, but in the end they did promote a cheap, easy to use platform something that the processing guys didn't quite achieve.
Everyone benefits from a strong middle class and not-too-poor class. Including you. Also I believe there is an argument to be made that more equal society is better for everyone involved.
Both have tenure according to their web pages so I think the article is just incorrect.
> Taxation is moral so long as it is spent on programs that benefit everyone. The military, roads, a court system, the post office, police, etc.
> Taxation is immoral when you take from someone you "feel" has to much money and give it to someone you think "deserves" it.

Dude... you're just framing it differently. You can easily look at UBI and taxes as they currently are as moneys from individuals that go into a large pot which is then spent to help the greater good. Roads do that, police do that, and so does public assistance programs like social security and welfare. But somehow UBI is different because it is cash? It's all the same. It does the same basic thing: lower income inequality.

It isn't "feeling" they have too much money and "deserving" it. It would be a calculated number that is used to maximize total utility of the economy. You're the one making the emotional argument here.

Not sure why anyone these days would oppose a system that would lower income inequality from the absurd point it has reached.
Some problems with this idea though -- even with a lot of intense agricultural improvements (sky gardening, hydroponics, automation, etc etc) it's pretty hard for a family of 4 to grow all their own food. And it's nigh-impossible for the carrying capacity of the earth to support everyone subsistence farming.

As far as I can tell, the main problem is not even our socioeconomic structures (those currently suck for distributing the efficiency gains of innovation, it's true) but the extent that we feel stuck in them.

That is there's a dual problem where it is very difficult to change policies and because it's very difficult we begin to think that it is impossible to shape the structures we are living in and try new things. (There are also immense political incentives to stay with the status quo in the current system -- see the DEA refusing to reschedule marijuana today) - so we don't have a lot of experimentation.

I don't know how UBI will work long-term or how it can be configured the best. I don't know how any policy proposal will work really, societies are dynamic and complex enough that hypotheses are difficult to come up and difficult to test -- but experimentation is important! So I'm mostly excited to see some people somewhere beginning to experiment and at least start floating the idea that laws/policy is mutable and shapable depending on the outcomes we want.
This is a very useful contribution.

The only thing I would add is how many man hours the project took over what period of time.

I have to click on them and sort of guess if that site took 5hr/week for 10 weeks, or if it took 10 people working 10 hour days for 2 years.

Since you already ask for the tech stack, this would also help launch a dozen "which tech stack is more productive?" studies.

On a final note, I appreciate that you also ask about marketing. Maybe the marketing efforts and man hours can be summarized too?
Which is a software/binning issue (probably 100% software) not inherently HW because M60==GTX 980==GM204 and M40==GTX Titan X==Quadro M6000==GM200.

Interestingly, for the first time ever, GP100 is unique (well, OK, K80 too but K80 was too late). And since Quadro P6000==Titan XP==GP102, it's probably just a software block here as well.

Also, for the first time ever, the high-end Quadro will be the best FP32 GPU of it's generation. That's the most interesting part for me.
and she just left out Finland because it didn't make any sense.
To be honest I don't think the problem is twitter. Twitter was founded and run by free-speech crusaders. It provides a platform for people to say what they wish, period.

It's the expectations we've projected on twitter. A forum for anonymous messaging run by people who believe in free speech is NOT an appropriate place for an online presence as a celebrity or business. You really shouldn't tie it to your real name. It's perfectly fine for there to exist 4chan/twitter-esque cesspools of hate and wretched abuse at every turn. It's not perfectly fine for people to, as part of their job, log into thousands of racist hate-spewing garbage messages targeted at them every day, or have their online identity plastered with it.

This is the kind of place that twitter is. Some are sheltered from the storm and don't notice it. Partly because you aren't the target audience for random acts of hate (maybe you're a white male in tech), and mostly because you just haven't gotten unlucky enough to attract the attention of certain hordes of hate spewing monsters. But if you use twitter to network, you're diving into the cesspool. If you invite others to network with you on twitter, you're inviting them to do the same. If you post a twitter account as part of your online presence, you're broadcasting to the world "yup, I'm part of this".

And that's a real problem for twitter. You can't have both unrestrained free speech and civilized communication.
> Then again, in the copywriter's age, yellow papers are bastions of journalism.

This might sound profound but it doesn't actually make any sense.
As a 1st generation Chinese-American who has seen more than his fair share of cooky, isolated, romantic and ill-informed Western expats living in East Asia, I'm not sure I'd trust their opinions on the societies they live in, especially if they did so only "on and off for four years".
Aah yes the Glow Puck! The Glow Puck came about before ubiquitous HD TV. This was FOX's way of helping viewer's track the puck. (As an aside, it is my opinion that HD has helped hockey viewability more than almost any other sport.) A couple of interesting Glow Puck facts:

- The batteries inside of the pucks would only last a short time (15-30 mins). Combine this with sensitive chips being hit at 80-100 MPH and a Glow Puck would only last a couple of shifts a game. FOX went through loads of them.

- The chips changed the weight of the pucks enough where the players hated them. The heavier pucks especially messed with wrist shots and passing.
Yeah, I hear this all the time: "municipal broadband services would be anticompetitive", while ignoring the fact that there is a de facto monopoly in place and municipal broadband would actually introduce competition.

I noticed that line of argument seemed more common when I lived in the south (NC).
What about the elected bureaucrats?
Since you threw it out there. Please inform the rest of us how?
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"It astounds me how much people forget in such a short time."

I have not 'forgotten' anything. I watched every moment of the Libya episode.

I suggest that it is your posture which is 'forgetting'.

A) Libya and Gaddafis totalitarianism, his child rape, corruption, cronyism - and admitted direct involvement in terrorism (Lockerbie bombing) - and then his attempts to mass murder dissenter ARE NOT THE FAULT OF THE WEST.

'The West' was left with very little choice but to at least stop the advancing genocidal army.

By not participating, 'The West' is de-facto 'picking a side'. So there's no way out of it. 'Power' does not work in a vacum, we can't just 'stay out of it' for the most part.

The failure of Libya is 99.9% the fault of Gaddafi, and the various Libyan factions. There's no reason that they can't come to terms and make civilization like everyone else on planet earth.

Just because 'The West' can't magically waive it's wand and create democracy, does not mean that it's 'The Wests' fault that democracy does not exist there.

Moreover - if 'The West' did not provide a stabilizing framework for the last 100 years - Libya would be in the state that it is now - and possibly much worse.

What "astounds me" is how blithely hypocritical are in blaming 'The West' for the mass murdering, totalitarian actions of others.

Have a quick visit to Libya and see for yourself. Myself - I was in Tunisia a few years ago and tried to sneak across the border. Fortunately, I failed :)
How do you market/reach out to potential customers? Just word of mouth from your inner circle or do you spend actively on marketing?
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I like the service and I use it for mock endpoints and other non-production applications, but I never managed to make gzip compression work in API Gateway. Actually, it seems to me that even when the origin serves gzipped content, it comes out uncompressed from API Gateway. Clearly a no-go for mobile apps. Anyone had the same experience, or did I miss something obiouvs?
No question, I considered that too. But for determining position in 3d space I think its more consistent than having floors. If you get to say the 10th floor with different floor heights the difference could be considerable. Its the problem with whats practicable in daily use and what makes sense from a system perspective.
I have a Teensy board, which is much cheaper and works pretty much exactly the same as Arduino and Genuino. The Teensy LC is great for small projects and is about 15 bucks IIRC. Never understood why you would stick to a more expensive brand just because of the name.
To be fair, a startup in the US might prefer hiring employees from the US simply to avoid the administrative and financial overhead of the visa sponsorship process. In that particular case it doesn't seem fair to call it "ethnic bias." I don't see anything wrong with that. I generally believe that as an American company, you should hire an equally qualified American worker over a foreign worker seeking visa sponsorship.
Odd response to an article about... cars.
I just checked out vets.gov to have a snoop around, and it's mostly quite impressive. But I found an SSL configuration error on this page (https://www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/vonapp) that will probably prevent vets from being able to use the site. Anyone know where to submit a ticket about that? I got yet another SSL error from the contact form on that page.
> Yes, it is.

No, its not. (Isn't this fun?)

> This is the crux of what most white Americans don't get about race in America.

Having spent much of my childhood being called a "nigger" by White Americans (and some, though less, being called a "zebra" or "oreo" by Black Americans), I really don't need any lectures from anyone about what "most White Americans" don't get about race in America.

And while there are certainly many things that many (or even most) White Americans don't get about race in America, what some (but, IME and AFAICT more generally, not most) Black Americans (and, even more paternalistic white-knighting White Americans) don't get is that negative racial stereotyping both is and promotes racism no matter the race of the proponent of the stereotype or the race targeted by the stereotype.

EDIT: I wanted to add a comment on this:

> Certainly, I don't think pithy tweets are the best way to advance these critiques, but they're not being written for the benefit of cerebral tech bros like us, they're being written to offer some relief and solidarity for others whose lives are materially affected by white bullshit.

The fact that a racist utterance provides some relief to an audience that has had negative experiences doesn't make it any less racist. Heck, one of the main uses of anti-black racism by white economic and political elites in the US has been to offer some relief and (illusion of) solidarity to poorer white Americans suffering from adverse conditions by directing the blame at blacks in general.
(Beam employee, views are my own)

The primary points relevant to the push for interactive content are:

- The "Interactive" system and SDK to develop and connect games to GUI controls. This allows first party to develop integrations, and also allows the creation of mods for existing games or integration via simple desktop automation.

- Extremely low latency (~200ms) video distribution at scale. Other services like Twitch have latency around ~10 seconds, at which interactivity would not be feasible.
Wohoo. I was waiting for this. I hope that at a later point this will also mean that we get some sort of syntax support for it once it's stable and entered std.
The Google load balancer supports proxy websockets over SSL (wss://) with the SSL Proxy mode: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/tcp-ssl...
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I've had similar questions from some of my hard core embedded colleagues, here's my answer:

Just think of something you might do with a traditional embedded systems approach, then google "arduino for ________" or "arduino shield for _______" and see what you'll find. Its can be pretty amazing. Its much broader that the surface stuff of LEDs and basic sensor / actuator tasks.

As someone who's done production embedded systems work, what I build from arduino (and the fairly large arduino ecosystem) is not for high volume product, its for proof of concept, small run pilots and show and tell (and fun).

Off topic a little:
One thing I've done to convince colleagues of the a plausible story of arduino POC to Production is collect a bunch of arduino gear (simply through web search and amazon) and build a paper-product with all the cobbled together parts. Then pose the question "if these cobbled together things cost _______ in single quantities, is there a plausible story for them to be 10x (or 100x) less on a cost optimized board with a proper contract mfg"?

If the answer is yes, then you cobble together your arduino thing and go show and tell with customers.
I'm no expert. However, I think taxation becomes immoral when the amount you pay in taxes, is more than the amount that you keep... so anything above 50%?
I was an engineer at HuffPost. I believe the departure of Arianna is going to have a huge impact on the organization. Whether that's net positive or negative, only time will tell.

Many of the company's significant initiatives seemed to come out in unpredictable bursts from the brain trust that formed Arianna's staff. The nominal product and engineering leadership was charged with implementing these initiatives, but subject to rapidly changing priorities. A lot of work was launched under time pressure and then scrapped shortly afterward.

To be fair, a lot of the instincts behind those priorities were pretty ambitious and forward-thinking. But totally disconnected from the work of implementation. There's an opportunity to retain the positive aspects that kept HuffPost on the cutting edge (at least in some ways) and reform the churn and top-down approach. Or maybe the road is clear for the company to be fully assimilated into the Verizonscape.
The real question: does this provide a faster elasticity component than ELBs?

At a previous employer, we punted on ever using ELBs at the edge because our traffic was just too unpredictable.

Combining together all of the internet rumors, I've been led to believe that ELBs were/are custom software running on simple EC2 instances in an ASG or something, hence being relatively slow to respond to traffic spikes.

Given that ALBs are metered, it seems like this suggests shared infrastructure (binpacking peoples ALBs onto beefy machines) which makes me wonder if that is how it actually works now, because it would seem the region/AZ-level elasticity of ALBs could actually help the elasticity of a single ALB.

If you don't have to spin up a brand new machine, but simply configure another to start helping out, or spin up a container on another which launches faster than an EC2 instance... that'd be clutch.

Deep thoughts?