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The truth is, it's Python. I'm not looking for a great language, I'm looking for language that'll help me get work done... quickly and not give me a migraine if I have to come back to it (Perl). The 3 changes are just big enough to catch me (and every other Python programmer I've worked with) so that I can't just program, which tends to push me towards keeping it in 2.7 or switching to another language, where the similarities don't exist to pull me into bad habits. The whole mess really sours me on the language that made me love programming again.
Is he high? It was hard to tell much coherence from all his blathering. A TelePrompTer will be crucial going forward.
I'm both a fan of Taleb and Buffett. That said, Buffett's success is due to his strategy of evaluating companies based on a number of characteristics - value investing. It actually aligns very nicely with Taleb's personal investing strategy (as noted in his later book, the Black Swan) of eliminating uncertainty.

Long story short, the less you know, the more "random" events appear to be. As Taleb wrote, "a surprise for the turkey is not a surprise for the butcher." Buffett's strategy is to know/understand as much as possible. Of course you will still be victim of the unexpected, but probably not as frequently.
>Also, the problem is not just misleading statements, but requiring that essential information is included, that it's expressed according to certain common standards, and that it's understandable to common people - not just to Wall Street bankers.

Whether it's understandable doesn't matter, you only need to prove that they intentionally mislead you to get you to sign something detrimental to your interests.

>There's a long history of selling bad deals to widows and orphans by confusing them. Currently you can't sell certain things to non-professionals; if they have free speech, can you stop them?

I'm sure there already are laws that prevent/penalize sellers from conning people.
Do you have an example of a trade agreement that wasn't negotiated "in secret" and which involved "civil society".

Treaties, free trade treaties foremost among them, are almost never public before the final text is available, because if they were they'd never get that far. Too many interests.

Look, it's a free trade agreement. It says, basically, "no tariffs at all for trade between the signatories". Except of course that every signatory has a list of a thousand "but..." clauses to protect whatever proprietary interests have their ear. So the end results is a big mess of exceptions and clarifications, which is why everyone hates it. There is literally something in there in there that everyone will hate! By design!

I mean, look: it's hardly the most important bill of the decade, and I'm not crying that it failed. But to pretend that this was some collusion of the global illuminati to stick it to the hippies, or white nationalists, or whoever you happen to identify with is just insane.

It's a ?!@#!$ trade treaty, for god's sake.
I think you would be surprised by the diversity of HN readers. It has a much broader audience than just technologists.
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That's typically something that you to very expensive lab work to be able to claim.
> A free market is defined as an exchange where both sides have access to the same information.

Its free as in freedom; to do anything. You are free to ask anyone about anything anytime.

You can do anything except be physical aggresive (like states).

> Even fervent laissez-faire economists admit the necessity of appropriate regulations: contract enforcement rules, avoidance of monopolies, a system of law and order for handling disputes, etc.

All of these has free market solutions.

All of these peope you speak of are not free market supporters. They are statists.
> HFTs like Virtu are just front-running, scamming retail investors like you and I out of pennies on every trade. There's no trading or investing happening here, just arbitraging broken market rules.

Do you happen to have a reference for this? This does not seem to match my personal observations, but I could be missing something.
The other guy already addressed this. It doesn't matter whether it's the state suing. Free speech doesn't mean you can't sue for misleading statements.
You're not wrong, but you're proving my point. I've said before [1] that "TPP [is] the largest cross-national, non-military cooperation pact of our time. It's a huge power play with serious geopolitical consequences", a perspective that likely echoes that of US allies [2] and yet the conversation in the tech sphere focused solely on IP.

This is a good fight -- one I applaud and support the EFF for pursuing relentlessly -- but this is just one issue in a gigantic compromise legislation that has to attain broad legislative support inside the US [3][4] as well as support from the other signatories, of which there are many.

It was in fact a failure of messaging to not get out ahead of, or in response to these vocal oppositions, as the public's ire was allowed to foment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893512#11894446 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/world/asia/trans-pacific-... [3] http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trade-trans-pacific-pa... [4] http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/293344-mcconnel...
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Nobody who actually thinks about salary thinks that salaries are set by the MPL. The ceiling on salaries is set by the MPL. The level is set by the available supply of labor and negotiations during the hiring process.
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Probably not. HN only allows editing comments for a limited amount of time. In one post I found from a couple of years back, someone said that the edit window is two hours. I think perhaps also that as soon as someone has replied to a comment it will not be possible to edit that comment any longer but I'm not sure about that.
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If it's just Solaris, well, a lot of valuable employees had walked when Oracle killed OpenSolaris, making the OS closed-source again.
Wow, that's quite the personal attack there. One of the things we learn in Economics is short run versus long run. Yes, Brexit is causing and will continue to cause a great deal of short run pain for Britain, but in the long run I believe it will prove to be the better choice. The problem is that we all want things to be great and pain-free in the short run, and in the long run. But almost by definition that isn't possible. There are always trade-offs. If you over consume today on credit, you will be paying a future premium for the short run easy living.

The point is, attacking someone personally, for their opinion that the long run gain will outweigh the short run pain of Brexit makes you look less informed, and more like someone who (without critical thought) believes the media propaganda: which focuses exclusively on the short run pain of Brexit.

Read up.
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They do check the string size before using strncpy though, so it should be fine
In my last three companies, the bulk of the infrastructure was defined and managed via Python scripts (a lot of this predated Ansible being great), so what gets forgotten is the literal billions of lines of custom wrappers and classes that are broken, usually on the print statement v function debate or how string formatting works. I can't justify hiring someone to dig through all that code just to bring it up to snuff and everything needs tweaking. Usually we end up just writing new code in another language and call it from python or the other way around. I can't seem to get comfortable handling both versions in one project without getting REALLY frustrated. So, yeah, a fork with the niceties from python3 that allow my tech debt to still run (and hopefully better), allowing me to replace bits (likely into non python languages - Go is growing on me) at a time and not en masse is pretty frikken awesome.
I don't use TrueOS, I think I played with it once or twice over the years, but what you're describing sounds... I can't find a polite word. Catering to the lowest common denominator? This sounds windows like. Users deleting accounts between upgrading and rebooting? Who does that? Why? It's not Unix job to stop you shooting yourself in the foot.
One could make the argument that their use of basket options was not uncontroversial.
Ah. I am on iPhone 6s using safari
KF has absolutely nothing to do with EM; no latent variables, no Jensen, no surrogate... nada.

Please stop saying that.
I actually found it really interesting that he was working on a high-assurance VPN when he created it to reduce his grunt work:

http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=8019

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/213253/

BLACKER's heavy lifting in security was done by high-assurance kernel called GEMSOS:

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~trj1/cse443-s12/docs/ch6.pdf

It was a classified work for TRW whose details took a long time to get released. Might be why he rarely mentioned the BLACKER project in its origins. Possibly trying to obfuscate it a bit to avoid breaking laws.
> UK was lucky to retain its currency independence.

it wasn't luck, it was years of politicians and the population ignoring EU Commission funded pressure groups saying "all your financial services will move, all your business will move, Britain will be poorer"

sound familiar?

our politicians may be incompetent, but they weren't incompetent enough to join the Euro
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Also: the EU is clearly imploding. Anyone with half a brain can see it is so. It was pretty clear from the outset that the long term viability of the Union was quite tenuous. I'm surprised it has lasted this long, honestly.
Extremely interesting times indeed. Massive political changes will always involve a certain amount of pain, but I believe the writing has been on the wall since 2008 and from political actions taken since.

The problem as I see it, is that the EU is trying to stop the tide. I believe this will fail due to the sheer amount of frustration felt by many of the populations who have not necessarily received or appreciated the globalisation as it has been implemented so far.

Unfortunately for the EU, the only changes that could save itself are antithetical to its hardcore believers and leaders who are in charge. Those who are looking to turn Europe into essentially one country (sounds crazy, but that has been the long and relatively successful game from the beginning), will not budge on a few key issues which are vital to their end game. The David Cameron negotiation was an example of this. If the EU had dropped Freedom of Movement, UK would have almost certainly remained.

Ideology vs pragmatism. Old story.
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Do you think the employer should be able to ask about your heritage then? Whether you have any grandparents of ethnicity X? How long ago did your ancestors arrive in the country?

>you can choose not to work for employers that ask the question in the first place

You can choose that, but not everyone can. That's the issue here, most people on HN never even encounter the problem, but they are definitely not the average employee.
No, the range is in general a (possibly strict) subset of the codomain. In a typed setting, the codomain is the more natural notion. For example:

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Here, `twice`'s range contains just the even integers.
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I would not have been able to tell which buffalos were verbs, which were nouns and which were proper nouns without the rephrasing of the sentence on Wikipedia. In fact even with that rephrasing I still find it difficult to tell which buffalo in the original sentence is what.
If you consider that there is a chance a flip will give you another hundred flips for free... And that can compound. It probably isn't as unlikely as you think.

There is a good Euler problem on investing showing that odds based investing can be relatively easy. Of course, many things including granularity of bets, floors, ceilings, and fees complicate matters considerably.

But, a relatively few big wins can give you a lot of slack.
The medium is the message. Whether its HN, Facebook or 4chan, we come here to munch on novel bits of content and digest them in the comments. It has irrevocably altered how we think, just as the printed word, the radio, and the television did in their heyday. Now I suppose we will someday innoculate ourselves against it's dangers as we did with past media, but right now the online world is crazy, and it's breached it's barriers and is spilling out into meatspace.

'All identity is created through violence' is another one McLuhan's probes, and it kept my head busy for months. I can't find a reason to disagree with it.
HN is toast. Its being overrun by statists/socialists.
It's good enough and they are not spying on me. I am going to start installing it on people's computers that I fix. They usually have Ask toolbar or something anyway lol.
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The Wikipedia article above says that though uncommon in usage, the buffalo verbs in that sentence mean "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle".
What happened to virtual reality?
Might as well change the name of Hacker News to Nanny-Stater News. Seriously, twenty-five years ago, real hackers would be laughing at such silly laws. But now we have a bunch of incompetent leftists who can't do anything unless someone makes a law to protect their sorry asses.

Just say, "I'm not answering that question". It's that freaking simple. You don't need a law. You statists never think of the consequences of such laws.
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Isn't that the strategy of propaganda? "Nothing is true and everything is possible"
How are you able to determine this is the app Everyone has been dying for? I would seriously consider a more focused niche approach to your product and market. What problem does Unum messenger really solve? Go for it! Im not trying to be critical, but the title made me think it was going to be something new and mindbliwingly awesome.
> There was a wealth of FUD surrounding TPP, obscuring the benefits and over-inflating the effects of the more controversial issues like intellectual property rules. A number of TPP criticisms would lead one to believe that intellectual property rules were the main element of the agreement.

If it had such incredible benefits, perhaps people should have talked about those. Ideally with quotes of the text, and discussions about the deltas to the current situation. And even then, that's an argument for passing the good provisions, not for accepting a package deal containing numerous downsides. Of course, all of that becomes much harder to do while trying to operate in secret.
Oh i guess no big deal then, can't criticize something that wasn't even made available, for god's sake. Insane
Right, power laws are extremely common, and all it says is that some aspect of the distribution is scale-invariant, but without saying why. For example, most companies are scalable, so it's no surprise that company valuations follow a power law. And since investors/founders own such large shares of companies, that would help explain why the 1% follows a power law. But as this article claims, if people gamble on log-scales, that would also create a power law. Power laws are so common and general, I find it difficult to believe that a power law is evidence of one way or the other.
Well, if you have auto-updates configured, it would be an easy mistake to make. I have, for example, installed packages and had them go missing due to this. But I'd like an "i'm aware of the risks, let me update quickly" option.

The main reason I run TrueOS rather than just FreeBSD is for the boot environments. I've been screwed too much by dependency issues on port/pkg upgrades and left without something critical too many times, and the bootadm thing is the perfect solution, as you always have a working fallback.
True, but thats the role TrueOS is attempting to fill. They're like the early days of Ubuntu where the whole goal is to create the most user friendly experience for the operating system, making it a great gateway-distro to the rest of the eco system. The more tinkering-focused users can go upstream to FreeBSD.

I actually prefer to start with a blank slate and tinker but the TrueOS people keep coming out with these awesome features that are making it hard not to switch.
I agree, this is likely a joke paper.

I find it fairly hilarious since at it looks like the standard Divide by Zero algebra problem, but then error after error compounds the result.

The first error appears to be in an un-numbered equation:

sin(theta)=dh/dr which is equal to 0 at r=0!!

which is then substituted into the differential equation:

F=g dh/dr = sqrt(r) = d^2r/dt^2 again equal to ZERO at r=0

Of course this is also an abuse of Leibniz notation (mathematicians squirm whenever physicists do this sort of "algebra" on differentials) which is then integrated twice and then differentiated twice (ignoring constants of integration) to get the equations for r(t) and a(t).

The second key is the square root, which allows for multiple solutions of the differential equation (one of which is the normal r=a=0), but that's just part of the side show. Physics has all sorts of "non-physical" results from integrations, DiffEq, etc. A classic being a negative time solution to parabolic trajectories.

I would add the use the statistics of continuos probability distributions to say that there is in fact ZERO probability that any ball is at r=0 just to complete the silliness. Perhaps he's willing to co-author a follow up?
Opposed to the polite kind of lying the previous administration engaged in. At least I get my bullshit upfront with this guy.
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The Very Smart People said that invading Iraq was idiotic and would cause chaos throughout the Middle East. They were right.

The people advocating invasion did so on the basis that their WMD program represented a threat to the world. They were obviously full of crap to anyone paying attention at the time.
Rather, the EU is in a deadlock. It is stuck with a partial integration. The only solution that would save it, i.e. complete the integration and make it a federal government, is now impossible in the current political climate. So it is left being a collection of laws and treaties with no clear leadership and direction of travel, and therefore will keep accumulating grievances without being able to do anything about them.
It really was quite a remarkable device, and if I remember correctly offered much more security than was strictly "necessary" at that stage of the crypto wars, though of course we know how all that particular story ended.
Doesn't FreeBSD also have beadm? Is there something wrong with FreeBSD's beadm? Not trying to be accusatory, its an honest question because I haven't looked much into beadm but I was planning on setting it up on my FreeBSD boxes this year and knowledge of any shortcomings you've already hit would save me the trouble.
Ohhhhhh, it may not be new, but I assure you - it is mind-blowingly awesome.

The problem it solves is app fatigue. I get this isn't a problem I have, but let me run you through the list of messaging apps I use.

- Slack
- WhatsApp
- HipChat
- Facebook Messenger
- Intercom
- Kik
- Social Media DM's
- Skype (for messaging)
- Google Hangouts (for messaging)
- WeChat
- Multiple Emails
- I'm probably forgetting some because there are so many

It may not solve a problem for everyone, but if nothing else - it will be a lifesaver for me! :)
Most countries would still have bans on post ex facto law.
> The rate of rape in Germany is 9.37 per 100,000 people.[Wikipedia]

Wrong. Wikipedia now shows

> The rate of rape in Germany is 3470 per 100,000 people.

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Quote a better source for your stats please.
>There are plenty of people who disagree about Buffet - Nassim Taleb who wrote "Fooled by Randomness" is among of those.

I can't find the source, but I believe Taleb was misquoted (or misinterpreted) on Buffet. Taleb indeed makes the general argument that most high performers are just lucky. But he doesn't say that all are. He just says: you can't tell.

As for Buffet, he complained he hadn't meant Buffet was unskilled. He meant Buffet was skilled and had luck. Which is a plausible interpretation. You likely need skill to get to Buffet's level. But those with the skill of Buffet don't all end up at Buffet's outcomes: Buffet would be at the high end of the distribution of those that had his level of skill to work with.

At least that's how I interpreted it. I believe Taleb's subsequent commentary on this was in Black Swan or Antifragile. It involved the phrase "for Baal's sake" when complaining about how people had interpreting him as saying "Buffet is pure luck".
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Startup times are unpleasant, but my main reservation about the JVM is oracle.

I invested a lot of time in learning clojure, but Oracle concerns me enough that I'd rather not build my knowledge stack on them.

So I've stopped using clojure. I may look into clojure script again in the future, but it still feels like a kludgey experience to me. Inspite of the amazing efforts by David Nolan and the community.
What negative consequences? A slight drop in their currency?

The point of them exiting is to reclaim blue-collar jobs through protectionist policies. Not entirely progressive, but it'll likely accomplish that singular goal.

No, it's not all sugar plum fairies, but the electorate decided they'd prefer protectionism and nationalism to the status quo, they want blue collar jobs, not to maximize GDP or the exchange rate.

Edit - I should also add, nowhere did I mention what I thought is the best course of action. The fact is, there's a growing movement to leave the EU. Draghi is making threats. I question the legality and practical application of these threats. Maybe someday I'll write a blog post or something about Europe and economics. For now I'm done school and working on a business of mine.

As the other poster said as well, protectionism isn't contrary to economic orthodoxy. It's just not considered particularly progressive.
That's too bad. My salary history tells a good story about me, that employers have found me more valuable than average. It's a pretty tangible and direct signal. In an interview it's convenient for them to ask and for me not to have to awkwardly bring it up.
vr should have stayed dead with virtualboy, I'm just amazed how far they took it this time..
GDP is a poor reflection of quality of life. The US GDP is "healthy", yet the middle class continues to evaporate and people keep ODing in rural areas from no future prospects.

EDIT: I suppose its okay to be poor if you were the one to make the decision. I hope for an educated electorate in the future.
The fact that it's always been done that way is not a sufficient excuse.
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