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OP is trading on Indian markets, so there is no pattern day trading rules. It's not made very clear in the article and I was confused for a bit as well.
People over #debian or your sysadmin friends are entitled to their own opinions and not representative of Debian users other than themselves, and for every random recommendation for not using stable you can find another random one about dangers of using testing or unstable.

If you check the Debian web site you'll see stable is the only one which is offically supported and recommended by the project and there is no distinction for "server" or "desktop" use cases. Had stable was non-suitable as a desktop OS you can be sure Debian developers wouldn't bother releasing and supporting thousands of desktop/graphical packages with the stable release.

In the end stable, testing and unstable have all their pros and cons, strong and weak areas and some are more suitable for some use cases. That Debian stable is only for servers and it is not a good desktop OS is a myth that needs to die. Stable is a damn fine desktop OS. Everyone is free to use whatever they deemed best for their use but when you post blanket statements like "You. Are. Not. Supposed. To. Install. Debian. Stable. On. A. Desktop. Machine." and "Stable is for servers" on a public forum you are spreading misinformation and you should just stop.
I would love to see more transparency in where the costs for dr visits is going. A recent 1/2 hour visit to my daughters doctor for a basic checkup and a couple of shots resulted in a $1500 bill to the insurance company. We paid a fraction of that but it still blows my mind that the bill was so high. I am assuming most of that was for the shots. If watsi can develop software that makes these costs more transparent maybe then we can address ways to lower them.
That was almost like 1984. Surrealistic to come from someone that have dismissed "numbers" and "statistics" (with quotes) as irrelevant distractions from the emotional narrative.
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I find the idea that this is all some Machiavellian scheme somewhat reassuring. It would imply a level of competence we haven't seen in conservative leadership (this group in particular) in decades.

I mean, it's not like their eventual goal is eating babies or something - they want to grab power & wealth, which they'll do for four years then disappear. I'd pay 1% of the US' GDP to buy them out of that investment gladly.

Sadly, Occam's razor shreds this theory. All signs indicate a plain old regressive cadre of incompetence, with everyone who understands how this "government" thing works having run for the hills / private enterprise. :(
This is a bit of a rant so either ignore it or consume the frustration and empathise.

Good enough is a turd in disguise, your desire to deliver enough working software to justify your existence and salary is egotistic and myopic.

Build sustainable software, that will work, for you, your predecessors and successors.

The constraints of the domain are fine and dandy, that's what matters, that's the problem deadlines, delivery and all of that is superficial. Keeping the business afloat for now is a band-aid on cancer if you can't write software in a a way that you in 10 months, 1 year, 3 years will be able to maintain.

Here's the reality, you screwed up, you buckled and allowed the pressures of institutionalised shittyness to constrain you capacity to deliver real value.

Please, everyone lets stop acting like software is some ephemeral joke that we can half-ass, and start being serous about the implications of our actions.
For most employees, that's not compensation, but speculation.
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I do not wish to be negative, I just think it is very hard to really judge this system without knowing the technical details behind it. Since we are currently in a bull market it could just be a fluke.

I did not read anything about backtesting. Have you done that? If so, I take it back :)
I didn't see anything in OP about the goal being to reduce bureaucracy in the United States. Everything in OP seems explicitly global.
Nah, factorio is much different. It's more about building factories, and optimizing them to maximize throughput.

It's more engineeringy than artsy. In minecraft my goal is to explore or make things that look cool. In factorio my goal is to make the mostest efficientest factory.

I think the best part of Factorio is that usually you'll set yourself a goal. Say, getting production of something like modules set up. You'll start building the section of the factory. Partway through you'll realize you need to up production of some material it depends on. So you'll go figure out why that line isn't efficient -- sometimes it's just due to how you've structured it, but other times it's due to lack of resources. You go to connect more resources to your network; maybe by finding an ore deposit and running a train to it. Wait, no, now you have a lot of trains in the system and not enough stops for them to drop stuff off without causing jams. You redo critical areas of your train network. By which point you discover that you're being attacked on yet another front by the aliens and you go to set up defenses.

Much like Civ, there's usually so much going on in Factorio that you'll always be in a "okay, let me just finish this and I'll stop" situation which never finishes. Of course, that's horrible if you have other things that you should be doing, but it makes for a really enjoyable game.
That's a valid point. I've updated it to be less flippant. Appreciate you bringing that to my attention as there is a lot of great discussion going on in this thread.
You don't have to look further than Canada to know that isn't true. My taxes are not significantly different from yours and I don't have to pay for insanely high medical insurance on top of that. Quality of treatment is fine and wait times aren't significantly different (but vary according to need).

I don't know how anyone can with a straight face argue that the US healthcare system is efficient with regards to money, time, or outcome compared to most single payer systems.
> because the US population lacks the desire and political will for universal healthcare.

Nailed it.
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Yes. Mongo is an operational nightmare. I mean, who in their right mind would use a product where the recommended solution[0] to resync a stale replica (which happen all the time after a long netsplit) is to "perform an initial sync". Which, of course, mean "please remove everything and type this command". Crazy.

[0]: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/resync-replica-set-...
AI would not directly create new jobs, but rather allow people to take up other jobs.
>"Modern left" leaning groups are so easy to disrupt and destroy it is child's play.

That raises the question, whose fault is it? If people are so sensitive that they get spooked by halloween masks and triggered by witty remarks, does the world around them have to change, or do they have to change?
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Ask HN: Would you use a Pay What You Want ecommerce for books?
You would pay in some cases the cost of the book and in others 0$ and the a tip after you read it if you like it.
This message was an April Fool's joke:

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Oh yeah, I would never let my parents go without an AV, they would never stop calling me otherwise.
Back to your question though, are you running into any problems with existing products, which ones are you having trouble with.
What is preventing legislation that simply opens borders / trade for filling prescriptions?
Ask HN: Analysis paralysis, can you please suggest a stack to get my MVP going?
Hello everyone,

lately, I've been considering starting the SaaS journey. I'm good at programming but not great since I've been mostly a sysadmin and security auditor for the past two years.

Since I've lost touch with the latest trends in web development, the decision regarding what stack and learning materials to use for my MVP has been quite overwhelming.

Please HN, help me. I will just use any stack and learning materials you suggest regarding front-end, back-end and database technologies.

I was thinking about Flask/Django, React/Angular and Postgres.

Thank you _very much_!
I can't remember where I read this, but there was this unique protest in Japan in a shoe factory. The workers made only one half of shoes (they made shoes only for the left leg). Technically they were working, but also protesting - all without making noise!

What would be the software equivalent of this? disable half the buttons on a page? :P
That would be "rapid", not "rabid"!

HN's window for comment deletion is fairly short because the threads are shared by the community. Letting people go back and delete comments after the fact would destroy the context necessary to understand them. So HN's policy has always been to leave most history intact even when the thread was regrettable. (I say 'most' because we do occasionally delete a comment when a user is worried about getting in trouble from it.)
I'm under the impression that Canada disallows private care. That doesn't have to be the case. You could have a system like the UK with both private and public care.

If you want to skip the queue you pay for it.
Arguments about which programming language is best aren't a matter of life and death.

They're WAY more important than that.
I always considered trolling to be an intentionally disruptive thing- posting things you may not even believe to get a rise out of people. Based on their definition, they risk lumping everyday assholery/immaturity/ignorance into it. Trolling is a lot more specific than "anything an ideally managed community would moderate out"; it's intentionally disturbing a person or community for various reasons (mostly sociopathic).
"That’s the real problem. Call it arrogant if you like, but I think the world needs my creativity where it’s going now, even if that need doesn’t readily translate into a flow of cash in my direction."

Your right, that is just arrogant. We are all thankful for the work you have done but I promise the internet will still be here tomorrow if you stop. Get a job or figure out how to setup a foundation to fund your work (i.e., like Mozilla, OpenBSD, et.al.). As the foundation is something you should have put together years ago I would suggest that you should go the job route.

When the bubble burst in 2001 I went from being on the top of the network stack to struggling to find work. I took every contract I was offered no matter how much is was below my skill set. I worked doing help desk contract work, etc. In the years before I designed and built a freaking backbone and did a HW company. I am back and successful now but I worked my ass off to get here and I never forget it. I am a better person for it.

Before my last startup hit my family and I lived in a 2 bedroom place in Menlo/PA area. The rent was expensive but the schools were the most important thing. We had a neighbor, an Mexican family. They also lived in a 2 bedroom with 4 kids. I would hear the fathers car leave the garage at 5AM and here him come back at midnight. He worked 3 jobs to pay for that apartment in such an expensive area. I asked him why. "It is my job to provide for my family. The schools are the best here and I want my kids to have a good future, thats why."

Get a job.
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Completely agree with you. The amount of backtesting has been very limited and the time frame was pretty short, so there are definitely changes this is a fluke. Confirming this is my main goal at the moment and I don't take any credit for creating something revolutionary.
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Absolutely. It's a huge undertaking which is why I think it's going to take a lot of crowdfunders to get one out the door.

It's not clear just how much of a demand there is for an open source alternative to Datomic which I'm trying to measure with the sign up landing page.

PostgreSQL solution might work if there was a way to guarantee immutable audit trail. This is really why Datomic favored in financial industries as it gives a high level of confidence that the audit trail can't be manipulated (even if you delete a record, that action will show up in the audit trail).

I do agree that it's rather surprising that we still don't have something like Datomic on github with a liberal licensing like MIT or BSD.

It could be due to demand or high cost barrier associated with emulating something like Datomic. And this is what I hope crowdfunding will change the game. Pay people to work on their pet project full time by crowdfunding it.
Ask HN: Anyone use Infosys Mana?
Given all the H1-B Visa discussions, as well as how Indian outsource companies prepared for a revamp of the lotto system, I started reading about how Infosys plans to pivot. Their latest claim to income is Mana. Try as I might, I can't get past the marketing noise. Has anyone used it or looked at deploying it in their company?
If FedEx can give better commission cuts than Amazon fulfillment and pretty much same delivery speeds then it is definitely a winning situation for FedEx. I envision a future where no one goes to brick-an-mortar stores anymore. Online shopping experience needs to be made intuitive and personal enough that goods get delivered at home. Two days shipping is good but not as good as same as shipping with minimal shipping costs. Still needs work. We are getting there.
> Something about handling other people's money makes organizations act this way, I guess.

The answer to that question is typically fraud. If you could provide cheaper and better customer service than PayPal, and stay solvent, you'd stand to make billions of dollars.

I don't have much sympathy for them, but the industry they operate in is a nightmare.
If he invested less than the monthly profit he it means he making more than 100%. That is pretty insane.
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Though April Fools joke. This reminds me of sqlite's extensive test coverage. I assume any code running in medical/critical devices are tested extensively.
Triangleman, triangleman,
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with data, if you can.
I don't know your Swedish skills, but here is a follow up interview: https://www.svd.se/man-hade-kunnat-salja-asylratten-for-20-0...

He quotes 10 SEK / day compared to 500 SEK per day.

He is a bit defensive and says that he his not arguing against helping people in Sweden, just that Sweden as a consequence is NOT spending the money elsewhere.
we have chosen to forego health care and services in some cases

Only in America do you choose to forgo healthcare when you are at a conference and caught food poisoning because you aren't really sure if the hospital will take your health insurance. Where do I apply for my medal for saving the system some money?
Take this idea to its ultimate end point and their are no jobs.

Its the Super Rich that have to change their viewpoint as there ultimately has to be a new way to distribute wealth.

Everyone is entitled to a wage without work, and the Rich and Powerful must redistribute to all others is there will be anarchy.

A slow but sure increase in a basic income is the only peaceful pathway to that new future.
You could replace the word MongoDB to "some crap C code from 20 years ago" but it wouldn't make you want to have it.
That is factually incorrect. The insserv software makes use of these dependency declarations for dependency based parallel boot sequencing, which has been in use by Debian since 2005 (based on the comments in the changelog), and I believe it's been the default in Debian since 2008.
An overnight time corresponds fairly well to when a 9-5 working professional has retreated to bed with their spouse, yet sleep remains elusive. Finding themselves alone with their thoughts and fewer and fewer of their friends being still awake, I can see why some would turn to commenting, venting, or inciting on public forums, for malicious disruption or otherwise. I don't think the hypothesis you appear to draw follows from the facts at all.
What big data?

How many acquisitions of an irish insurance company by a german bank are you going to use to train your algorithm to understand the legal and regulatory issues? How are you going to teach your algorithm to anticipate how IFRS9 or the upcoming Banking regulations being discussed with the regulator going to affect that? How are you going to train your algorithm to draft the disclosures in the offering circular, or to challenge the management's view during the due diligence?

Are you going to mine gmail traffic? Are you going to mine websites? There are like one or two companies in the world that would face this particular combination of problems. You won't find a nice article on wikipedia to tell you how to handle it.

What big data?
Because every doctors visit would cost money, people wouldn't get regular checkups and catch issues when they are cheap and easily dealt with. So now more pressure is put on that catastrophic medical insurance or government provided catastrophic health care.

That kind of system promotes poor and expensive health.
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> allow people to take up other jobs

What jobs are these? Why aren't they "taking up" these other jobs without the influence of AI and automation?

Maybe these new jobs that they are "allowed to take up" are worse than their jobs that are being done by machine intelligence.
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This reply is the buried gold ;)

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> Anything you need to know about the world is in a table somewhere

No it isn't. If I read an article about the Volkswagen emissions scandal, what table do I look in to figure out how much consumers will care, and how aggressive various governments will be with their punishment? When Disney buys the rights to Star Wars, where should I look to see if it's worth what they paid for it? Should I rely on data from 30 year old movies, or look at merchandise sales or something? If I start seeing a lot of articles about climate change and the dangers of fossil fuels, should I sell my stock in Exxon?

Not that humans are particularly good at this stuff, but I don't think computers will be as good or better for a long time.
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This holds me back from seeking public office as well...

Reminds me of this NDP politician in Calgary that had some photo of her surface in which she was holding a joint and giving the flag the finger. It's completely irrelevant (and could have been a joke for all we know), but I'm sure the fact that it surfaced stung her like a thousand bees.

I believe at some point in time we will have stop caring about these sorts of things because eventually everyone will be affected to some degree, but that time is not now.
Have you thought about trying to trade on IEX? It could level the playing field by sidelining HFT
>Absolutely, but isn't this type of software generally used to augment existing jobs, rather than replace them?

Is there a difference? If a person does 10x as much you need 1/10th as many of them.
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Pretty much, yeah. Less than 20% of the population of the UAE are citizens; there's a large majority of imported Indian, Filipino, etc labor.
> If your job is to look at data and make decisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go

Depends on the type of data, how it's collected, how it's aggregated, etc.

I'm a market researcher so I look at data all day. Thing is - I look at both qualitative and quantitative data from a ton of different sources (financial filings, surveys, macreoconomic organizations, vendor briefings, engineer interviews, etc.).

I size the markets for embedded technologies that are automating away data-driven jobs. Most notably in the industrial sector, where years of near-zero industrial productivity growth have left a lot of manufacturing/oil&gas/utilities companies hungry for any way to bring costs down.

The newest technology right now is the "IoT Cloud Platform" which aggregates data from a bunch of industrial machines (directly from devices, or through IP enabled gateways), routes the data, and sends it to a cloud where it can be analyzed and monitored automatically to predict failure and prevent unplanned downtime. From a component standpoint its made up of a (1) piece of client software that sits on the machine or gateway, or a configured agentless client, (2) infrastructure VMs for load balancing/server provisioning, (3) host VMs to run an OS, middleware, and a runtime framework, and (4) applications that run on top of the host VM.

One of the more interesting demos of this tech is a Microsoft/GE joint project that used drones to take pictures of power lines, sent that data to the Azure IoT Suite, which then performed visual analysis to determine which power lines were damaged or deteriorating, saving the cost of sending humans out to climb up these structures. All the big companies - Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle - are trying to add more intelligent applications on top of these platforms, with machine learning, neural nets, and blockchain-based applications being some of the most advanced.

If your job follows a simple binary data check or logical chain - is this machine functioning within specs (if not, order replacement), did we hit the target price for this asset (if so execute x number of orders), does this piece of equipment look functional (if not, report to manager) - sure you should be worried about your job.

If you go one step up from the basic logical workflow, and enter the realm of data synthesis, or of handling data that requires skepticism/critical thinking, I think you have no reason to worry about an algorithm doing your job anytime soon.

The financial sector in general is getting some of its excess fat trimmed due to a period of increased regulation and low interest rates/returns. This is a good spin for these finance companies, rather than "we're laying off 2/3rds of our cash equities trading desk".
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The current government is equally corrupt. The bureaucracy is epic, good luck opening your business there, they may simply lose your documents.

Unfortunately the stories about the needles are true.
Nah, that's amateur hour.

They're easy to disrupt because if you throw out a piece of fake or mostly fake information that accedes to some viewpoint they hold holy they'll throw themselves into a rabid fury without much thought.

For an example just look at the 0-60 leg humping of lyft they did last week because of that selectively true uber story. All that despite Icahn and Thiel each having 9 (?) figures invested in lyft. L to the ol.
"But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go."

"The last people to be replaced are going to be software devs"

If your job is to write code so people can look at data and make decisions based on that data, you're gonna be the second to go.
To expand slightly on what triangleman said, many employees who were working 40 hour/week jobs suddenly found themselves only working 29 hours/week. This allowed the company to not provide them insurance while, at the same time, reducing their income by ~25%.
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It is irrelevant how famous he is... if he doesn't have evidence to back up his claim then he is a source to dismiss. In fact, when considering the truth of anything that is my main criteria. Im curious what yours must be.
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Factually, these are very common in India. Hundreds of lakes have vanished from Bangalore since 1970s.
Importantly, a very strong communicator of scientific work.

His passion shined through in the videos he made, which any non-expert could understand.