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You cannot tell me what I was talking about because you aren't me :)

Trading is HFT. For anyone else, you should buy an index fund and never touch it.

Day trading is a really bad HFT and bad gambling.
Credit card purchase data? FB ads offer a way to target based on info from Experian, et al.
When I go to sleep after having worked on something complex and didn't fully resolve it, I'll almost always dream about trying to solve it. Sometimes I see code, sometimes it's more abstract, but it's always disconcerting. My wife says I mumble things like, "I'm pretty sure 'also' is a keyword unless I'm losing my mind and need to check the documentation"
The UK is not a good example - it has a fairly unique nationalized system.

Germany, on the other hand, has a regional and national market system with compulsive health insurance, much like the ACA attempted. It's not a public only system by any means.

It's not about sharing a room, actually. It's about reducing the burden on the state, providing more efficient service for cost for everyone.

Further, the main issue with public-only systems is wait times. In Canada now the wait times are extremely long - in the area of 20+ weeks. http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/healthcare-wait-times-hit-20-we...

That's not about comfort, it's about getting treatment.
> I think you are wrong on that. Vulkan is a low-level native API, not a JavaScript API for the web. Lots of design work needs to be done.

Isn't that what we want? A low-level not opinionated API allows the market and the open source community to create solutions that are subject to competition.

If we get an opinionated high level API then we are close to future developments by small agents. Only the big players can decide on the future of 3D graphics on browsers.

Why can't Apple just develop their ideal API over Vulkan and let developer decide what to use?
It's typical to be a separate company until bluewashing occurs.
Almost dupe, with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593810 (173 points, 14 hours ago, 119 comments)
Where did you learn about this kind of stuff? I'd be interested in a larger writeup.
Hi! I'm the author of Redash :) Nice to see Redash at the top of HN.

I'll be happy to answer any questions about Redash, open source and about my journey to make Redash a self sustainable project.

For any questions that don't fit on HN, feel free to reach me at arik at redash.io.
The negative income tax is not a progressive idea. It was originally proposed by Milton Friedman as a way to dismantle the social safety net and get rid of the minimum wage, food stamps, social programs, pensions, and all those other programs previous generations have fought and died for. What do people get in exchange? Well, a bunch of money, but nowhere near enough to buy all the services they just lost from the free market.

A single mother with 2 children needs more money to make ends meet than a single student in their 20s. Subsidies take that into account, the negative income tax does not. People with a physical or mental handicap need assistance. The negative income tax has abolished the programs that help you, so good luck. Pensions? Same. If you've not invested wisely during your working years you'll have to eat dogfood when you're old, because social security is gone.

The problem with the negative income tax is that there's no way to make the math work, because you can't raise the minimum amount every citizen gets high enough so that every citizen can live a dignified life with that amount of money. Not even when you tax the highest earners at 90% does the math work. The special aid programs we have today exist for a reason: they specifically help vulnerable groups in society, who would otherwise be in desperate straits.

Make no mistake: the proponents of the negative income tax want to shrink the government to the size where it can be drowned in a bath tub. It's a far right idea that, if executed, would have horrific consequences for the poor. I urge people on the left of the political spectrum to stop and do some napkin math on how the negative income tax would end up redistributing wealth.
PPrune discussion on the issue, after the cause was found to be the stuck camera:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/533921-voyager-plumm...
Yes but a bank teller total cost to employee is like $12 to $15 an hour.
> faster CPUs are a part of that equation.

I think the GP did not debate that but pointed out the for CPU speed/throughput, clock speed is only part of it. Adding functional units and allowing the CPU to process more instructions in parallel can have a big impact, so can e.g. larger cache, better branch prediction and so forth.

If you give people faster CPUs, they will cheer and find something to keep them busy. ;-) And for some people, there is no such thing as "fast enough". But for a fairly large share of desktop/mobile users, the is not the limiting factor as much as memory bandwidth and I/O.
In CS 101 I spent all night working on my final homework, walked into class, put the printed solution on the professor's desk, sat down in a desk right in front of his and fell asleep.

I dreamt about the homework problem, and realized I had made a mistake. I immediately woke up, grabbed the paper, and made the correction. The whole class burst into laughter, but the professor didn't seem disturbed. Later he told me something like that happens every few years (he's been teaching for 30).
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large segment of society you describe can still be 10% of it (random number). ie if 10% of Switzerland decided to overthrow their democratically elected government, you would have 700,000 'terrorists' immediately, most with their mandatory military weapons stored at home.

but, we speak about Switzerland. don't forget many in middle east conflicts are mercenaries or volunteers from all over the world
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Bilateral treaties between n countries would mean a total of n*(n-1)/2 deals

If you have more than 3 countries, it's useful to have a common set of rules instead of just bilateralizing all deals

(Which doesn't mean all rules really need to be centralized, not all EU countries adopt the Euro, for example

However, when you sign a BT with the EU, your power on the decisions is diminished, but you still have to pay to be an "associated member" (that's what I meant above)
> Whereas NIT likely requires people to continually submit tax returns stating their lack of income (which is potentially more stigmatising).

It also means a lot of people simply won't get the benefits. In the U.S., a lot of people who are eligible for welfare programs never take advantage of them because of the administrative hurtles (to take one example, "Only about 1 in 6 people who are eligible for child care subsidies actually get it"[1]). I'm starting to think more and more that this is by design.

Even if you're one of the people that gets the benefits you're eligible for, it's still a burden (imagine having to do your taxes several times a year), and you are subject to the whims of policy makers that want to beat up on you for political credits. So you had some states requiring that welfare recipients get drug testing. If you had a similar requirement for Social Security, people would be livid and through the politicians out on the street. But when this kind of stuff is done to the poor, a lot of people have the attitude that the impoverished deserve to be treated badly.

[1] www.npr.org/2016/08/21/490822086/the-financial-trials-of-child-care-for-working-families
I've been doing this for 30 years. Why? Because I work in such a way to make it happen. What you call a problem, I embrace as a gift.

Of all the things I've discussed here at Hacker News over the years, this is probably the #1 subject. Most programmers have the opposite problem of you: they have trouble turning their minds on.

I always turn my computer off several hours before bed. The last thing I do every night is review hard copies of code with a red marker. Many nights I dream of my project/code. Sometimes I even jump up in the middle of the night and go to my computer, write down my thoughts, or lately, voice record them.

Sometimes I am incredibly grateful for the "gift" I've received from "outside myself" in the middle of the night. Other times I'm annoyed. For every cool insight, there are many false positives: What was I thinking? But the positives far outweigh the negatives.

I don't know why this works, but I can't imagine accomplishing all I do without it. Many programmers struggle for years to turn this "mind CRON" on. You already have the gift. I suggest you find a way to embrace it and turn your lemons into lemonade. You don't have a problem; you have a gift. Make it count!

My original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275

Also #49 here: http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.pdf
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just going to prison in Syria is very lenient punishment [0]

[0] www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/middleeast/syria-executions-amnesty-international-report/
First and most intense time this ever happened to me was from playing the origin Alpha Centauri. It was ultimately a deeply uncomfortable experience.
Oh yeah, very practical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec
I remember seeing Twitter switching from ruby/rails to the JVM for a lot of their backend a few years ago. I wonder why they're using node now (unless the mobile traffic was never moved to the JVM)?

https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use
I must ask ... did you used your password as username ?! ;)
The worst cases for me are with math-heavy problems. I'll see code mixed with shapes and graphs. The mornings suck, because you wake up knowing you were only half-asleep.

That's why I like to play some easy games or read a book 1hr before going to sleep. Sometimes they induce creativity though and are counter-active.
My bullshit detector is bothering me.

- Scammer volunteers the information that he's "using his supervisor's computer". This increases the emotional satisfaction of watching the video but seems unmotivated.

- Scammer sounds like he's suppressing laughter at one point.

- Scammer follows the guy's instructions in the first place and continues doing so.

- Some of his lines seem to have an oddly flat affect, as if he were doing bad acting.
I don't remember. So certainly was not properly documented.
"I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower." - Mikhail Kalashnikov

"If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." - Albert Einstein
Yes, in the case of the Ledger Nano S for example when you set it up for the first time it gives you a 24 word recovery seed that you write down and keep in the safe place. The seed is created according to a Bitcoin standard (BIP39) If anything happens to your hardware wallet you just buy a new hardware wallet that supports BIP39 and you are back in business.

If you want to be really secure you can engrave your recovery seed into a piece of metal that won't melt in typical house fire temps like brass.
And game availability relates to GPU API support available at the platform... how exactly?

The fact that game studios decide to use one API or another is no factor in evaluating API availability. (Also note how many DX12 games not published by Microsoft are DX12 exclusives - that says something about Microsoft motives, but not about API qualities).
Given the challenges involved in making a 10,000 year clock, a 10,000 year space probe seems currently infeasible: http://longnow.org/clock/

Putting it in space opens up some advantages, though that comes with its own whackload of disadvantages, too. Perhaps you could stick something in permanent shade on the moon to avoid 10,000 years of thermal stress, for instance, but you've got a decent chance of something hitting you hard enough to break something over that time span, too.
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Thanks <3. Always enjoy seeing what Eli does with Redash & Zapier. Really looking forward for when the Zapier integration becomes official and goes into their directory.
A NIT or UBI are basically equivalent. But is easier to see why we give to those who are lesser off. E.g. why give UBI to a millionaire?

One of the points is to give power back to those who on the labor market are almost powerless. Both forms would do that. What would the impact be? Likely price for labor goes up.

Describing only one of the options as a subsidy is not likely correct.
At least it could catch some easy regression between version after some heavy refactoring, like this particular one. Better than the complete random performance of current VMs on cloud.

It wouldn't be much harder than just making sure you're the only VM running on the hardware (disk & cpu) . Much like a "reserved instance", with real guarantees against side effects.
Yes, all the time. I was a military academy cadet and I train all the time in my mind, I dream 12-24 times a year that I have managed to get back in and do basic/etc. I was a TA and I prep/teach lessons in my mind, and I also slice and dice code in my mind all the time.

I never know which I am going to get but coding is the most pleasant of them, by far. The higher my stress, the more likely it's not fun.

The fact that my current job is to untangle legacy Java code and we actively oppose any "unnecessary" changes hurts me, because I can't not untangle it in my head, working or sleeping. Resting/playing is OK though. That's why it's important.

Of course, we don't have any unit tests, because how else could we employ 2 testers per coder? And we obviously don't have any time for that useless stuff.
I am going to respectfully disagree with you here. Yes, Vulkan is a difficult API to work with and it's not at all beginner friendly.

But simplicity and ease of use should not be guiding the decisions, the emphasis should be on providing a way to run Unity, Unreal, and other engines (new and old) on the Web.

Even if Vulkan is a difficult API to work with, a low level 3d API should be available in a browser. It could be used as a building block to create frameworks and engines that are easy to use.

Even WebGL is "too low level" for most application developers, which is why three.js and other frameworks are popular.
Are some public datasets available directly as SQL endpoints?
I know the Semantic Web provides some public datasets as SPARQL endpoints.
But I have never heard of an equivalent for SQL.
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Vulkan has validation layers - that are transparent to both app using the API on one side and to the driver on the other end.
I'd say it's more likely due to lack of design than thoughtful malicious design.
True, and it is very hard to convince them when they spend so much time and get so much enjoyment out of being un-private, FB, Twitter, Instagram. How can you convince someone who vomits their life online to care about privacy?
I used to dream in code all the time. It was when I was tackling a programming problem I was having trouble with. My mind would often solve it while I sleep; and I'd be able to solve the issue quickly in the morning.

It happens less these days. Either because I am more experienced or because development tools have improved; I no longer get stuck like I used.
Actually it is. There are no expensive planes to operate, no crashing or pilots dying, which means there is no political risk to carrying these missions out. Just lots of brown people getting blown up, and we've seen how much people care about them.
I continue to be surprised by this argument. It seems to only matter if your job is to learn one language per week.

I don't need to get up to speed in a weekend. It's the speed that I'm getting up to that matters. Of course there is a limit to this principle, I grant you that.

What matters as well is how readable other people's code is, or even my own code after not touching it for a year. And I mean readable for someone as proficient in the language as the original author. This aspect sometimes seems underappreciated by proponents of "powerful/expressive" languages.
Facebook knew he was interested in Campari, so they put Campari on menu in his local restaurant? That's smart!
I don't. I had dreams about my workplace, but it never happened to me to dream myself at the desk writing on a keyboard. Funny, I'm on a computer up to 10 hrs a day. I always dream about people, and I'm never alone in my dreams. Even when I'm breathing with trouble at night, I have someone trying to save me. Curious, it makes me feel less "isolated" now that I'm thinking about it.
When I was cramming for exams in university I used to dream chemical equations. I also sometimes dream of code and how to architect various stuff I'm working on, which feels pretty good.
Is Tox secure?
I just found the app called Tox. Is it secure? How about the anonymity and privacy / encryption?

EDIT: I'm asking because I found a few threads here at HackerNews telling us it is not secure to use and we shouldn't using it.
I believe it's employees ;)
Thanks for the detailed answer, exactly what I needed! Would you recommend the Ledger Nano S? It seems like it's half the price of Trezor for some reason.
Is that the only factor that influences who we breed with? If so, why do humans display a strong preference for mating within their own ethnic group?
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Ok if youre going stick with this its fine - its clear, that you use mathematical expressions to allude to things, not to define them. And that you find it not uncommon or inconsistent to base observations on clearly insufficient mathematical expressions, appealing to ambiguity in your math to carry such technique.
needless to say, you are wrong in your statements. US has no regard for life apart from US citizens (and this is a topic on its own), practice demonstrated again and again in various aspects of life, war, international affairs etc.

lesser evil ain't no good in any book out there. we can and should strive for better
Seconded, you are just selecting for your own bias. Facebook knew you were at a bar. Campari happened to be pushing ads. You noticed the ad and probably disregarded other bar-related ads.
My first contact with event driven programming was coding for the original Windows C API, back in 1990. Nowadays we call that API Win32, but then it may have been win 16. Switching from the traditional imperative style to callbacks was a big deal: don't call us, we'll call you! [1] and [2] show the difference in coding style. Later in the 90s C++ wrappers like MFC and XVT simplified things, but the paradigm was still an inversion of control. And that's what event driven means to me.

[1] http://www.paulgriffiths.net/program/c/srcs/hellosrc.html

[2] http://www.paulgriffiths.net/program/c/srcs/winhellosrc.html
You seem to have some loop there with the real Uber support?
https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/bmazjsnh/

And in one case the spammer was aware of your site!
https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/gywanvsb/

Maybe you can hide from Google with the appropiate robots.txt so the last one doesn't happen.
And he wasn't wrong when he said in that recent super bowl interview "we aren't so innocent". Everyone is still jumping on him like he was saying the US is just the same as Russia, unable to accept the nuance that America has a lot of crimes to answer for.
you have to issue before you can consume
So I have to wonder about the performance difference between his sloccount and loc (https://github.com/cgag/loc) which is so fast it always makes me think that it hasn't done anything (same as ripgrep).

I'm like 98% sure loc will be faster, but it would be interesting to know by how much.
A lot of programmers I respect like to work on printed out code, and it's something I enjoy as well. Furthermore I'd love if we could work completely offline, with pen and paper.
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Because storing encrypted online is both harder to do right and if your computer has malware on it then no amount of encryption will save you because at some point you will need to decrypt your keys. Not to mention that someone can still try to guess your encryption phrase.

With a hardware wallet your private keys never touch your computer so they can't be stolen. Even if you are the kind of person that can't resist clicking on every piece of malware you encounter your Bitcoins can't be stolen from a hardware wallet.

Bottom line hardware wallets are easy to get right.
You can Google "PPC cloaking" and get quite a few interesting results. There are also professional cloaking services that maintain large IP datasets. The two most popular of those are called Just Cloak It [1], and, ironically, FraudBuster [2]. Also if you're looking in general for information on this and other black/grey hat marketing techniques, Black Hat World [3] is a great place to start.

[1] http://justcloakit.com/

[2] http://fraudbuster.im

[3] http://blackhatworld.com
Thanks, I had missed SOLR and TIKA even though I had investigated Lucene.

One criterion I had for a lightweight solution was to not require Java. No problem with Java, just that it is a big dependency and my perception is that it is not a common install on the laptop or desktop of people reading pdfs, at least out side of the STEM stream.
Surely things can get worse, but if the dead could speak, Gary Webb and Michael Hastings would want to have a word with you.
The "OK, Google" voice interface on Android, whatever it's brand name is, is amazing. Do try it out. It's able to understand me even with a lot of noise (street sounds).

Also, there might be something wrong with the mic if you're using an external bluetooth mic?
We LOVE REDASH at our company. Lack of adequate developers (the neverending startup saga) meant not everyone got what they wanted, fast enough. Redash has changed that for us. We use it extensively across all our teams (operations, sales, marketing etc). Thanks!
> When they defeated Germany & Japan at the end of WWII did they enslave their people? Use their nuclear advantage to conquer new lands and colonize them? No, they rebuilt their economies and tried to ensure that they had stable governments & trading partners.

The US influence and control over "liberated" Europe was much more discrete, but still as efficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

They still did their usual military coup routine in Greece - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967%E... - and were really close to do the same in Italy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_Borghese

This degree of discrete but ruthless control is in place to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
I have extra pointers. I could lend you some. Although, in my defense, some of them don't point to legal memory, so YMMV.
I don't think that the GP's point was that free food is ubiquitous, merely that it is underutilized where it is available. I'm not commenting on whether that's actually the case, mind you.