skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you own an equity ETF in a retail brokerage, you actually own a claim on a claim on a claim on a fund that owns a claim on a claim on a claim on corporate stock which is itself a secondary or tertiary claim (behind debt and/or preferred stock) on tangible and intangible assets.

It is a common & legal practice for the fund to lend its claim on a claim on a claim on corporate stock to other parties, for a small amount of interest, to help reduce its fees. See https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ISGSL.pdf

If the potential for fraud and error in this system doesn't give you a bit of a pause, it probably should.
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> an estimated 38 percent of the EU budget will be going to farm subsidies. Farms as a share of total employment are quite small (about 2 percent)

That really is astonishing. However, I suspect the comfort drawn from industrial revolution comparisons is the idea that the automation revolution will be merely as disruptive as the industrial revolution rather than rendering half the population incapable of competing in all likely future versions of the job marketplace.
I applaud Mulesoft for going public. Too often today large (well past series C) tech companies (I won't name any names) refuse to go public and instead continue to take private equity and foreign investment and prop themselves up on absurd valuations with no-checks and balances. Some of these companies are absolute dog shit, yet they continue to receive unlimited funding and insane valuations in a vacuum with no market to short them.

Wall Street calls bullshit when they see it, and smart people short bad companies when they find them. Silicon Valley doesn't provide a way to short these propped-up companies, they just continue to self-promote themselves on private equity and foreign investment.

Kudos Mulesoft and best of luck.
The kind that grants a monopoly to ISPs which allows Avg. Americans to have 1-2 choices for internet >10mbs. There was a 1 Trillion or greater global roll up in the last 2ish years.

I think that google was likely meeting friction somewhere in the process, prob everywhere. I am sure they also got pushback internally but I figure launching in major cities w/ 10-20 year better cable would be profitable. Especially since that industry is insanely profitable
It's not really a tiny bit... ~30% of the networks value was fabricated.
What went wrong with the Apigee IPO for the employees? I know that they got acquired by Google but I'm not familiar with anything else.
It's a clever quote, but I've always thought this turned a bit on an ambiguity in the word "unreasonable" in the first and second half of the sentence.
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I think the point is, you set the TV to the HDMI input (or whatever) and leave it there. Of course, you may still have to deal with laggy start up, volume controls (annoying, on my parents' Samsung), and the like.

But once the HDMI input is up and delivering, whatever content you pick comes through it from the smart box(en) upstream that are the only thing(s) connected to the Internet.

Of course, I suppose that may not work with people who have cable TV -- those cable TV boxes probably don't or will be made to not cooperate, as much as possible. Don't know -- don't have one, right now.

Maybe TV's will become like Windows computers, at least for some of us. Buy the "smart" version because it's the only one available or has a price break, and then "throw out" / don't use the OS that comes with it (well, except to display whatever the upstream box is putting out).
The 'politeness' he mentioned is very relevant to the cultural issues the article discusses.

It's a consensus culture. Finland is even worse. Disagreeing with the group is a huge taboo, something that will make a meeting room go very uncomfortably quiet very quickly.

Of course it has its advantages, like everything it is a trade-off, but in terms of being entrepreneurial I think it is a big reason why entrepreneurship is held back in the Nordics. You can't just fight it out with ideas and then shrug it off like I see in other places - for better or worse people are more sensitive and 'correct' in intrapersonal dealings.

Don't know why it's like that, I hear Canada is the same. Perhaps the cold climate means people mingle less, and so social occasions are meant to reaffirm social cohesion, to the exclusion of airing differences.

Oh yeah, it's also 'socially correct' to outwardly acknowledge and reject the Law of Jante-effect - which just leads to criticism being even less tolerated; you're just jealous, narrow-minded, etc. if you are critical of anyone.
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I did not downvote you. I only do that when I believe a comment detracts from the discussion, which yours did not.
A little thing to show a compact weather forecast [1], a basic fronted to FreeBSD pkgng, a frontend to zx2c4's pass, some other utilites.

[1] http://www.gkayaalp.com/emacs.html#forecast.el
I feel like maybe weev is more famous than this guy? Or am I just too young to know who he is?
I'm not sure what you think gives the state a monopoly on this. There's massive amounts of information about most people online, and there will be even more in the future. I think it's likely that in the future even if you've never put a single picture of yourself online, there will likely be enough images of people in public and associated information to identify you anyway (use a credit card at a store? Why wouldn't they choose to associate your image from in-store cameras with that customer record?).

All the more egregious aspects of online marketing and tracking are coming to the physical realm. You too will likely be able to access this information for a price. Good luck trying to stop it. Honestly. The world would be a better place in my estimation if you could. I just have little faith in measures designed to combat economically incentivized behavior.
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Let's say short selling is banned.

You make a contract that's functionally equivalent.

You think the judge is going to say "oh, well it's not _exactly_ short selling... YOU GOT ME!"? Intent is everything, those sorts of tricks don't work. You're up against judges and other humans on this sort of thing, not some AI you're trying to trick.
even going a simple jingle bells loop (I know, I haven't studied much) get's a pretty much nonsensical repeat response.

on a side note I'd like to have an option to put ai on mute and have the duet run after a session, since it's extremely disorienting for a noob to play with random noise on the feedback loop
In Chapter 5 in "The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition", Horowitz offers an analysis on the 6.5 and 7.5 digits of accuracy attained from the Agilent DMM.

http://www.keysight.com/en/pd-1000001296%3Aepsg%3Apro-pn-344...

Chapter 5 is all about precision, Chapter 8 is all about noise.

In essence, you run a worst-case error analysis over your circuit. In many cases, 1% errors can be attenuated into smaller errors with good design. If you aren't careful however, then errors grow bigger instead.

---------

On a tangent, but somewhat related note for those software people...

The methodology is kinda similar to error analysis with Floating Point arithmetic btw. You think about where error happens, and whenever possible, try to "squash" the error instead of making it grow bigger.

All double-precision Floating Point math has an error of +/- 1 bit 53-bits over. The question is what do you do with that error, and how can you prevent it from moving up. If you do things like sort your numbers from smallest to largest (in magnitude) before adding them up, and prevent subtraction (or addition of a negative number) at all costs, you can actually make your errors smaller.

If you're not careful about the order of operations... errors grow exponentially (and even faster than that with subtraction!). On the other hand... if you are careful about things... errors shrink exponentially!
I think, there is no `private` section on the social network, everything is public, just accessing to that section is limited for someone or one scope and not for other one.
But scope of this accessing is growing through the time, without we know about that.
For example, from small circle of our friends or family to the whole of the world.
His entire rant is based on fake news.

The whole “The radiation levels inside Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks” is bogus.

The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels measured from consistent points are falling consistently!

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
Facebook is not an industry. It's a product in an industry.

A similar question would read "Have we reached peak AOL?" or "Have we reached peak Windows?"
I trust you got my point about what probably is not best for your career. Notice I did not say 'bad' because how the future turns out is just a guess. That guess rarely matches what someone imagines.

First professional jobs are usually amazing...even when they aren't very good...because working around professionals is amazingly different than being in school and the rate at which a person learns is amazingly high. Most people still find another job after a few years because they have changed more than the company.

The first few years out of school, school often still matters and it is likely to matter to your next employer. For your current employer, well you already got the job and it is not unusual for an employer of students to see school as a distraction.

It's also not uncommon for companies to serially hire students with the expectation (and possibly encouragement) to move on after graduation. Before assuming a long term career at your current company, it's a good idea to take stock of how many people have moved from student to long-term employee and how many people have moved from junior to senior employee.

None of which is to say that is the case with your current employer. But in terms of a career it is good to have options and that means irons in the fire in terms of other employment and contacts down the road. Again, the most important resource for your career is your social graph.
A bit pedantic, but the Corvette z06 gets pretty close to six figures.
Love it. Mulesoft was a customer at my previous company and I always enjoyed working with them. Good luck for their IPO - it's a good thing for the ecosystem to see more tech companies going public this year.
This is ever so slightly thread-hijacking but I've been wondering something slightly related for a while now: what's the downright cheapest way to get into really really big LED matrixes? Like the kind used for signs (of various sizes; let's say I'm referring to around <2ft sq).

The major issue I'm completely ignorant of is how to get enough I/O that can drive the LEDs directly - I'm assuming something with lots of direct drive I/O and no intermediary components would be the cheapest way to do it (?).

I understand multiplexing is the only way to survive at scale, but for small displays (say, 5x30 (= 150 LEDs)), what solutions would have enough I/O to drive each LED emitter individually, without scanning? I've always wondered what a truly flickerless LED matrix would look like. *

(* Several years ago I had an odd incident where after using a scientific calculator I'd see weird swirling patterns overlaid on top of whatever I was looking at. The LCD itself was not faulty or damaged, and I couldn't see any flickering at all. Considering LCDs run at 30-100Hz, the whole incident (it stopped after a while, I have some theories as to why) made me curious what a truly DC-driven LED matrix would look like.)
Why not just write a quick script to send them all an automated message/ticket a week before this is live and then run it on archived data? You can do both at the same time.
What do you value more right now? Time or money?
...it's hard to imagine a more obvious and plain application of "freedom of the press" in the information age than the right to record what one's eyes and ears can see and hear and then publish the same, even if (especially if!) it contains evidence of state misconduct.

I mean come on.
> how superior centralized systems are

Tell us? Because around here, I saw a huge number of bank fraud basically unpunished. "Yes those guys duplicated your SIM and stole all your funds. Too bad for you since we're not going to even try to catch them."

Centralized systems might be efficient but the rule is, they don't care about you, so it's not your problems that they're going to solve. At least I can have some faith in the code, which is the final law.
No its not. If I am selling widgets for x dollars and making a handsome profit and I decide to raise my prices by 150% over night I am likely motivated by greed - to make as much money as possible. That it not way means I wish to harm people which is what the definition of malice is.

People get greedy in business all the time. That doesn't not mean their intent is to inflict harm other people.

Just because a word has a negative connotation does mean its has the same meaning as another word with a negative connotation.
Is it safe to act upon this ruling, or should you just do what the police tell you to do regardless?

Do what they tell you. "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

However, once you're out of immediate danger, talk to a lawyer. You would probably have standing for a §1983 lawsuit.
HN might be dumb, but please don't make it dumber by posting rage rants. We're hoping for thoughtful discussion here, even about Theranos.
And sense of humour apparently.

I'm a dev guys.
What exactly does Mulesoft do?
> In order to get it to do half of what Notepad++ or Sublime or Kate do

Do they have anything remotely like Gnus or Org-mode? Tramp? Magit? VC mode? SLIME? EMACS IS NOT A TEXT EDITOR. It is a Lisp interpreter with many applications written in it which happens to have a text UI and a text editor in its standard distribution.
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Hmm. Maybe this is what has been happening to me. Thank you.
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At that point, they might as well start their own ride-sharing business. Why would they really need lyft ?
Because of screen glare, maybe? In Masters of Doom, the author describes how Romero created his perfect office environment with lots of natural light. The employees then stapled dark felt over the top of their cubicles because the screen glare was so bad.
His entire rant is based on fake news.

The whole “The radiation levels inside Japan’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks” is bogus.

The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels measured from consistent points are falling consistently!

Also note: there are far more comments on this subsequent dupe[1].

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13667470
Hiring people never changes, if anything it is gravitating to less and less care for a degree. So your opinion seems to be perfectly valid to me.

It probably is in my best interest to not go back to university, give me some time to work and start working on some more personal projects to decide what area of tech I want to follow.
Oh man...so many stories to tell about that Dang!

I ended up at the Game Guild (game store in Lake Geneva) by chance on a school trip for a small group of people who had various social issues (I was in it because I had bad social anxiety in HS). Saw people playing D&D in the back room and as I started talking to them realized it was several of Gary's children and grandchildren and friends. So I would make the hour-long drive from the Chicago suburbs every weekend to play with them for a few years. It actually ended up being one of the biggest drivers for me getting past my social anxiety such that you'd never know I used to have it if you met me now. I ended up founding my own D&D group back home as a result and later in college. Both led to meeting lifelong friends and becoming confident in social situations, speaking, organization, etc. since I was DM most of the time.

A couple of my favorite stories...

- Bringing my best friend and watching him start arguing with Gary (without knowing who he was) about how Dwarven women don't have beards. Kicked him under the table and whispered "he made the f-ing game, if he says they have beards, they have beards!"

- Joking with some people about the various named spells like the spell lines for Bigby, Tenser and Mordenkainen and being confused why some of them seemed to be talking as if the spells were theirs. Turns out I'd been playing with the people who originally created and played Bigby, Tenser and Mordenkainen, so yes, they were their spells.

- Having Gary teach me a harsh lesson in physics and volume calculations when I cast a high-level fireball in a smallish space and incinerated half the party. He was not the most forgiving when it came to interpreting the rules.

- Being listed as an official playtester in the Lost City of Gaxmoor book.

Unfortunately, the Gygax family had a somewhat tragic history with businesses, and beyond what went down originally with TSR, the Game Guild itself (which his son Luke bought out at one point) seems to have fallen on hard times and is no more.

On a side note, I work at SmugMug right around the corner from you guys (we're near Evelyn and Pioneer right off the 85 exit), so if there's any interest in a HN D&D group, I might be convinced to dust off my dice bag!
IANAL, but the police could hold you, and you could be charged, though the prosecutor is likely not to charge, or to try to get you to plead to something else, as the charges are unlikely to stick.

The police can lie to you, and tell you to do all kinds of things. The law may not be on their side, but if they have a hand on their gun, they will get their way.
It's not. The point is, the FOSS community value fairness a lot, but they are not fair at all with their champions.
I'm just going to shamelessly quote the FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, Q4/2016 that came out a few days ago.

LLD developers made significant progress over the last quarter. With
changes committed to both LLD and FreeBSD we reached a major milestone:
it is now possible to link the entire FreeBSD/amd64 base system (kernel
and userland) with LLD.

Now that the base system links with LLD, we have started investigating
linking applications in the ports tree with LLD. Through this process
we are identifying limitations or bugs in both LLD and a number of
FreeBSD ports. With a few work-in-progress patches we can link
approximately 95% of the ports collection with LLD on amd64.

That is 95% of ~27000 ports. Which means for very many things, lld as linker will just work once those patches have been applied at the appropriate places.

[1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2017-Fe...
Huh. I bet that in the Docs SRE team at Google there's a senior SRE who's having a "I felt a great disturbance in the Force moment." Google Sheets is awesome, people at Google are smart, but they are not capable of magic.

In the case of Sheets, the most reasonable sharding scheme for the database backing it would be based on some collection of spreadsheets (in the extreme case it would be just one spreadsheet, but that probably wouldn't be practical). The important assumption here is that all the traffic pertaining to one spreadsheet will ultimately go to one server. So, if there's too much traffic coming related to one spreadsheet, you cannot really scale horizontally by adding more servers – you have to give it more resources. A single Google Sheet is sometimes used by lots of users at the same time, but they are able to limit it from the frontend (for example by making it degrade gracefully).

If the traffic comes from the API, it's going to be a little bit more tricky – especially that IIRC the current rate limiting for the API uses a daily quota, leaving room for some really nice spikes.

So, as soon as a website built using this hack get somehow popular someone is going to have a really rotten day with a lot of pages.

(Of course, this is pure speculation on my side, I have no idea how Google Sheets is actually built – I would be very curious if there's a smart way of overcoming this sort of issue.)
Very nice!

I've been consistently impressed with Databricks' approachable blog. This particular post spawned a nice discussion around database design with my son, who has taken a lot of recent interest in all things technological.
Keep up the good work.
> should you just do what the police tell you to do regardless?

I am not a lawyer, but I think it's pretty obvious that there are some things that the police might tell you to do that you are well advised not to do if you think you are a suspect.

Examples include: performing sexual favors, selling drugs, and giving them money directly (whether directly or pretextually as some sort of fund-raiser).

I think that recording the police fits in this category. It is obviously completely legal and works to your distinct advantage.

I have plenty of videos of police telling me to turn my camera off. I have never done so. And I have never had any further flack raised over it.

Think of it this way: if they are telling you to turn your camera off (a pretty brazenly thuggish and illegal thing to do), then how do you think they're going to behave once you do?

85% of police appreciate being recorded. Ask your cop friends. It helps them too.

If you are actually seriously in doubt about what to do, buy yourself some time by asking for a supervisor. In my experience (which is ample), a supervisor will not want to be seen one camera telling you to turn your camera off and will want the internal political advantage that comes from footage being recorded of the officers under her command.

But never turn your camera off if you think you are a suspect. Never.
We've banned this account for trolling. Abusing HN this way will eventually get your main account banned, too, so please don't.
> the basic gist is that everything in our societies are abstractions we have to believe in collectively.

Sapiens is a book that offers a more accessible overview of this concept: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens
Ah, the old, "We can't say X about this group because doesn't apply to every single member" fallacy?

Of course we know you don't believe that, otherwise you'd be unable to have any opinion about any large social group (which would make it impossible to be a feminist, for example).

I only ask that you apply a single standard to your beliefs, instead of "general trends OK" for things you want to believe, and "one exception disproves any general statement" for things you want to disbelieve.
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I think this is awful advice. The second you turn your camera off, you lose your side of the story.

If you're seriously nervous and unsure about what to do, ask for a supervisor. In my experience, they'll typically tell other offices to cool it with the cameraphobia crap.

But never turn your camera off if you think you're a suspect. What good can it possibly do?
That exists. It's called mixed-signal ASIC's. They mix digital and analog components.
The operator there is let. The = is just a punctuator which indicates the initial value expression for the let.

Litmus test: if this was rendered into S-expressions, the let would stay, but the = would disappear.
Please don't cross into incivility. Both sides of classic arguments need to stay civil and substantive to avoid the usual downward spiral.
Code is law until well connected people need a bailout
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Quitting school is not best for my career?
But working full time is good for my career?

So taking the computer science degree and working full time is in my best interest?
Lightning Bolt.