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Completely agree that she won't spend time in prison.

Those pointing to Martha Stewart and Enron are underestimating how connected Elizabeth Holmes is.

Enron didn't have members of the board like Henry Kissinger, Bill Frist, and Sam Nunn. Normal companies don't have those people and certainly normal startups don't have those people. Holmes had easy access to high level members of government at the early stages of her company. Her connections are much stronger and higher level than anything Martha Stewart has/had. Of course, I would argue Elizabeth Holmes committed much worse crimes.
Would the taxpayers have received a payout if the banks bets went as planned? The taxpayers absorbed the risk from the banks, they won.
Another way to put it, with monads (or more generally FP) there is a separation of functions and data. With objects data is hidden behind procedural interfaces.

I'm not familiar with CRDT, can you compress the idea of how to "remember" a whole history of states with them and why are vector clocks important? The introduction on wikipedia reads like they are useful for (geographically) distributed processing. I can't really relate or contrast this to monads.
Excuse my ignorance but won't they have access to the whole URL?
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You're quite right. It's more akin to drawing your curtains and locking your front door. Anyone with enough motivation can break in but at least it's not all out on display.
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/143387/is-there-...

That's pretty clear. It does depend of what level/technology is used in the Encryption, but broadly, against nation state actors with full virtual and physical hardware access, you are to put it bluntly, stuffed.
Eh, don't be too quick to write off the idea of activism here.

Expressing your opposition to this bill is important even if you don't believe there's a real chance of it being overturned.

In 6 months, snoopers will probably ask politicians for more power, and politicians will look back on what happened today. We want them to remember that it was difficult and had a high cost in political capital. Not that they snuck it in and everyone rolled over instantly.
There's currently a very good (and timely) deal on PureVPN lifetime subscription for Black Friday. I have no affiliation here, but figured this might be of interest to a lot of people in the UK.

[1] https://deals.geekwire.com/sales/lifetime-of-purevpn
As of this law, you are already on that list
How did you deal with trolls when you were a moderator? Any troll who can get around a shadowban can get around a regular ban as well by registering new accounts.

If shadowbans defeated 50% of trolls and made the forum 50% better, I'd consider that progress.
Because there is rarely anyone arguing against the state being more involved in peoples lives, against making activities of the state harder by safeguarding systems against abuse.
I have a brain and think they are (damn near) all hopelessly corrupt, someone once said you can define a man by his enemies.

I'm at the point where I actively think the current round of politicians is actively bad for the country.
It's been a while, so my memory could be playing tricks on me. However, I believe the specified std::unordered_map iterator invalidation behavior rules out efficient use of open addressing unless someone comes up with some timsort-level novel implementation ideas.
I can see that you feel strongly about the equation of "alt-right" with "fascist", but beyond that I'm having some trouble grasping the point you're trying to make. Are you taking me to mean "right-wing" by bien-pensant? The term refers to orthodoxy of thought, not to any specific political tendency.
Especially when the competitors on Kickstarter are demoralized by learning about competing product already entering market and starting incremental updates.
You really need to keep an eye on these people.

http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2007-08/1731

A motion from 2007-2008 that ".. expresses concern at reports concerning the expansion of the powers introduced in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and the recent extension to the list of organisations permitted to use these powers from nine to 792".

This motion was brought by the Member for St. Albans Anne Main. The 2016 law basically extends WHAT is recorded without this previous concern of WHO should use the collected information being addressed (i.e. police vs. every man and his dog).

This would have been a tick in the Member for St. Alban's workbook if it weren't for the fact that she has since voted consistently voting FOR mass surveillance:

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/11798/anne_main/st_albans/...
>I've worked on products with tens of thousands of users, and the vast majority of those users never communicate.

And your answer to that is to spy on them unless they read fine-grained details that even the generally expert users on this site missed?
Thanks. Having started this game in 1997, in some respects fortunately with punched card FORTRAN and hands on use of an IBM 1130, since that sent me straight to the library because I knew there had to be better ways, and being cash strapped right now I'm not in the market for architecture books. But for free? I'll try them for sure, and who knows, may pay him some real money in the future, nothing ventured, nothing gained. At least for me, one good free book has more than a few time resulted in that.
Or you can start your business and be a millionaire
Is it just me or is America deteriorating as a whole? People would rather do a stand still challenge then get money? Throw book bags at each other? How is that fun? And its not even like I'm old, I'm 19 and i don't find any of this lit. Why are we promoting the wrong things though? We have other countries looking at us like idiots. A decade ago, everyone wanted to come to America. Now everyone wants to leave. I think we should fix ourselves before it gets worst, but fuck it i guess. People will see this post and won't care. Wont care until we deteriorate fully...thats when people will start to care about the things they did/didnt do.
Im 19 starting my own business. While you were doing the fire burning challenge, i was teaching myself how to code and finished learning within a week and a half. I found an Investor, Mentor, Accountant, Business lawyer, Marketer and other people to be part of my business while you were shouting "Damn Daniel".. Im working towards being a young millionaire in 2017 while you are looking for the next trend. Im not hating....just get your priorities right. Thats it.

And for the bunch of you that are going to be the future leaders, millionaires and billionaires, if you have an idea and want to build a business team (get people like investors, mentors, marketers, accountants, business lawyers, software developers for your business) make a post on NovateurPYR.com
Does the Balloon hashing paper deprecate Argon2?
> Don't take shortcuts and you won't get burned.

I'm sorry that the user did something unexpected and then posted about it in a way that made your application look bad. I know that must be frustrating. However...

Calling the user out as doing something wrong when your application is failing because of a use case you can't handle properly just looks bad. You serve your users, not the other way around. Don't forget that.

If it were me and there were a case that my application couldn't handle properly, if I couldn't fix it, I'd raise an error, and then document clearly that they should not do this, such that when they search for that error, they'd find the answer. Then, I'd work to see if there were a way I could avoid the error altogether by not allowing that use case.
I agree so long as you start at the top and work your way down.
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I doubt if they really understood which event you were referring to or if they ever told the truth. My dad was an undergraduate in 1989 in China, and he constantly tells me what he had suffered during those days. So I'm pretty clear about what happened back then. I used to discuss this event with my friends and most of them had heard about it.

Even if it's not in the history textbook and it's not allowed to be discussed in the public, most of the Chinese citizens who were alive in 1989 have heard of this event. I can't say children in next generations would remember it, but at least in 2016, Chinese people do remember it.
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Indeed that is a valid argument. The argument that the US government is using Amazon is bogus since the threat to data stored on Amazon is precisely the US government strong arming Amazon. Acceptable to the US. Not elsewhere.
I just bought a subscription to F-SECURE FREEDOME VPN after a bit of research but also heavily influenced by Troy Hunt's recommendation.

It's currently discounted with the coupon code BlackFriday.

Setup on the iPhone took 2 minutes, setting it up on my OpenWRT router tonight will take longer I suspect...
It was clear the UK was going this way for a while so I switched to a small cloud host for VPN which exits in another country. $5 a month and it took only a couple of minutes to setup OpenVPN with a simple shell script[0].

Also important is to setup outbound firewall (or other mechanism) so that if the VPN goes down, you don't spew your traffic over the open connection [1].

I don't notice any speed difference from daily usage over the last year. Large file downloads I task my NAS to download outside the VPN.

My purpose is only to prevent the ISP from collecting logs about usage, I don't expect it to have much effect if I'm targeted for surveillance and I'm fine with that. Who knows how ISPs will handle the data (we've seen targeted advertising and content injection in the past) let alone all the agencies with less than stellar security practices.

[0]: https://github.com/thomascannon/scripts/tree/master/vpn
[1]: https://github.com/thomascannon/scripts/tree/master/vpn/vpn-...
You can't use it if you don't trust it.
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I think you also forgot to add industrial espionage to this list as a compensation for low innovation levels.
Thinking Machines' demise is pretty well documented in the "Inc Magazine" article about them: http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html
Martha Stewart isn't all that wealthy or politically connected. Have a case from this decade?
I fully agree with the quote above, but I don't find this as clear a cut issue as perhaps many on HN do. It's undoubtable that surveillance is becoming harder now and that groups who would bring great harm to innocent people are using the internet for research and communication. I don't know what the answer is, but encrypting everyone's communications end-to-end with no-one able to ever intercept does sound like it will make protecting us very hard indeed. And yes, I know these tools for strong encryption are out there and they can't be un-invented - but I can see why Governments want to do "something". I am just saying what that "something" is becomes difficult to define.
I'm a fund guy, and my take on RenTech is this.

We're lucky to even have heard of them.

RT started off as a CTA. If you look at CTAs a good Sharpe is something like 1-1.25. You can buy a book that will get you most of the way there, and it's really simple (Author Andreas Clenow, I forget the title). I have actually verified this myself, coding it up in Python.

If you simulate a random walk that has a sharpe of 1, you'll find there's plenty of periods where it's down or sideways. So you need investors. They have to pay you management fees so that you can run the thing while it doesn't make money.

Simons then changed tack. In the early 1990s the fund industry was very different. Most funds were discretionary funds where the boss decided what to punt on, and investors were used to trusting them to do so. So changing tack to another systematic strategy, in equities, could be sold to the investors.

Now this is significant, because there's a lot more stuff you can do with equities. There's industry structure, there's individual company information, there's analyst predictions for each firm, each firm has its own price series, there's corporate actions, and so on for thousands of stocks. Contrast that with CTAs where you have a couple dozen liquid things, maybe 40, in a few categories (bonds, equities, commodities, FX).

If you find a strategy that works for a commodity and it gives you some Sharpe, maybe 0.1, and we assume for simplicity they are uncorrelated (which they aren't!), you can roughly sum them up to sqrt(n). So there's a big difference between 40 and say 2000. This is just a vignette, don't take it literally. But the point is you can find strategies that in aggregate are much better in the equities space. Purely my opinion, I don't often talk to people about this, so no feedback other that my collaborators.

So back to the story, Simons builds this thing and it starts printing money. Now he's insanely rich, and the thing never loses money. So what does he need investors for? They are getting a free ride until the fund hits capacity.

Now if he had just gone straight to the Medallion fund, the thinking is the same. Why on earth would he need investors? If he didn't need investors, why would he have his name out there? He wouldn't, and neither would anyone who'd discovered anything similar. There's probably a few groups like that out there. They're unlikely to have built out the capacity, because they never became hedge funds. But I'm thinking they're out there.
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> I wonder where the information about these searches came from?

I've also wondered about that. Presumably it could simply be from the browser history of a seized computer. But now, who knows?

Will it become standard practice to look up the internet history of anyone accused of any crime? Who decides whether this stuff is admissible as evidence?
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Don't know his or your context, but McCarthy is the creator of Lisp, so in a way he's one of the pioneers of functional programming (there were of course other mathematicians inventing the foundations). Which is a way to combine programs from small building blocks that are just functions knowing no global state - they always return the same answer given the same arguments.

Contrast this to procedural or object oriented programming where usually the parts know a lot more about the context (state) than they really need to know. This can lead to implicit (and hard to discover) assumptions about the state of the world that are broken later on when some parts are changed, leading to bugs.

The way this works is by combining functions with (higher order) functions. For example, chain a function that gets A and returns B with a function that gets B and returns C. This is done without ever speaking of concrete inputs - reducing unnecessary knowledge should lead to fewer bugs. (Whether that's a more practical approach is another question).
My current gig had a similar problem; changing the DB or putting a layer in front of it at a large scale or really er 'mature' codebase is basically a rewrite, and that's not really the smart way to play it and it's probably not possible anyway.

Start from the top instead of the data. Moving various bits of the API to new implementations/microservices and modernize the stack -- new features, make 'em all standalone services and try to deal with your logic in the app instead of in the db. Move /send/giant_dildo_to?uzer=cyberpunk out of the monolith and to a sep service, and eventually you might get to the point where not a huge amount of the legacy code is actually being hit by anything besides your new code. At that point, the cost of redoing the persistence bit is way less than it was when you started.

Depending on your app, you might even get away with creating a new DB and using the orig as a kind of 'feeder' which you run on batch -- all options are open right? But obv it depends what you're doing.
>and Google's internal culture of openness

Does not exist like you think when it comes to projects. People are very secretive about lots of projects for all kinds of internal political reasons. Using data they technically have the right to use in a somewhat scummy way is a perfect example of a project that would be kept out of the spotlight.
They didn't mention TOR in the article; is there a reason for not mentioning it? Is it still legal to use TOR in the UK?
But why is that? I mean in Hungary (where I live) there were demonstrations against Internet Tax which is a much smaller concern. This is a country where a lot of people live in apathy and there is no true democracy. UK is a much mature democracy where people care. Or not? I don't understand this.
No one in Spain is defending this model, that's a lie. BTW things started to go real bad after Hugo Chávez was dead and buried.
You can use Cassandra LWT as a building block for multi-partition transactions, in a similar way like CAS atomic operations are used to build locks, mutexes and monitors and then monitors are used to implement ACID transactions in RDBMS. However, noone says it would be easy or performant, therefore this is probably not a good idea.
> The same could be said about the US i guess. It's the EU that looks like a naive child on the World Stage...

Sad but true. As a European I feel embarassed seeing that American, Russian, and Chinese leaders are all carefully protecting their practical interests whereas European leaders seem more concerned with pushing their idealogical dream.
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... which they have done, for some definition of "best".

They've chosen an implementation with good cache locality and lower memory overhead (and presumably better average-case speed) than the chaining implementation usually used for std::unordered_map. The downside is that its worst-case speed is pretty bad.

On the other hand, I believe they use Siphash by default, which means it's very difficult to even intentionally trigger worst-case behavior without being able to inspect the process's memory for the random Siphash key.
> Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.

Cassandra makes it nearly distributed to implement a foolproof lock correctly?
Remember - they'll know who's signing the petition ;)
I doubt the EU has any plan of anything. With rise of nationalism and protectionism, the EU is fighting for its own existence.

China was never a equal trade partner to the west. In fact, I don't think any of the developing countries can be equal trade partners to the developed countries. When you are weak, open your market completely to western multinational companies with huge capital and technology advantage is economical suicide, and it will benefit no one but the rich and powerful at the very top on both sides.
Actually, that's also a lie. First, Podemos didn't exist back then. Also, they were hired by many other latin american countries, and also by the EU.
> If you’ve already decided that you have to have an RDBMS to clear the job, take this advice: screw the good advice ‘never design for the future’.

This gives a high expectancy for the article. It begins in a good way, with a real database, but all of sudden it ends. Some questions are presented, but I'm sure it will get much more valuable when the problems are solved by showing the answers and examples. Probably a following article will complement it, no?
How about VPSes in UK datacentres, e.g. Linode, London? Should one consider moving them to e.g. Germany?
Awesome, so not only does he not care about privacy, he feels the need to deride people that do?

Maybe the reason they needed analytics in the first place is because of this myopic perspective. If you assume everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, you're going to stall really quickly.
Could be a shill ?
When people are well fed and happy they don't see the need to up end the status quo. When there's no bread for people to eat then heads will roll. Therefore it will be interesting to see how long China can keep the growth up, and if there is ever a bust, what kind of change will happen. For all we know they could just go down the path of having a dictator of some form again.
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Quadratic complexity is bad, but when I saw the example code I automatically thought "that's definitely not a good way to make a copy". I'm not familiar with Rust, but I assume the class contains a special cloning method which does something more like a memcpy()? If so, if you want to make a slightly modified copy of a hashtable, it's probably still faster to copy the whole thing in one go and then add/remove the desired elements than insert each one and do the filtering element-wise.

Otherwise, it somewhat reminds me of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
“Your program is stupid. It doesn't work,” my wife told me (2010)
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What would a FB IPO have looked like without the expectation of a deep and liquid secondary market for the lifetime of the company?

If the secondary market wasn't so big and efficient, it would be more expensive for everyone to raise capital, from large corporations to one man seed rounds.
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Does it make sense to sign this if we are not from the UK?
A dodgy advert, an image embedded in an online forum, a malicious link on reddit. I agree this sounds worrying.
> Some of the times it's to make the product better, or better targeted.

Homebrew lead maintainer here. This is exactly why we do it. To repeat myself from below: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded.

> Furthermore, now that you know, for brew specifically, will you opt out?

It's worth noting: if everyone who uses a niche piece of software opt-out when it breaks we'll look at our analytics and likely remove it from Homebrew instead of fixing it. This may be unfair but given the amount of work: we need ways to prioritise. Analytics have helped us do that so we can prioritise fixes on things that are critical for many people.
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How do you use money to hire someone when you only have it for a few minutes or seconds?
I think it's a cross between both depending on what suits the current audience.
Thanks! I've already bought PCL, but noticed a couple of newer RDBMS books by C J Date, and add these observations:

I suppose this changes if you create an account and log into it, but the prices are initially quoted in Euros (close the US$ right now), and shifted to dollars after I entered my address in the registration process.

They say free shipping to individuals world wide, and the physical book I bought is going to be printed on demand by Springer Customer Service Center LLC, with the usual delays. And of course the ebook I bought was immediately available; all very slick so far.
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I don't really believe this will make a difference, but sometimes you just have to stand up for what is right anyway. I've signed it.
No, because, as per the help page https://petition.parliament.uk/help, only British citizens/UK residents are eligible to vote. No point undermining a legitimate process with illegitimate entries.