skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Casinos do not make money on borrowing for gambling, but on gambling.

That's completely false. Casinos are huge money lenders.
I recently got interested in the markets and the PDT rules are one thing that I feel I need to hear more informed opinions on before formulating my own. I'd love if more people chimed in here to put in their .02 cents on the benefits/drawbacks/intentions of the current rules.
> How about you show me the evidence that people are [...]

I've made my argument. Why don't you take part in the discussion and make some of your own to why this is meaningful?

> I'd love to hear what you've done to convince all the vendors [...]

Why is it at all relevant what I've done and especially since when you don't say what you've done?

> Most of us in INFOSEC haven't been able to convince [...]

I haven't seen much convincing being done. "INFOSEC" (all caps of course because we want to be cool like the military) by itself tends to be a label for people who are relatively far from the development process.

> The only time vendors ever delivered secure or safe solutions was when sound regulations were forced on them with a requirement they were followed before a purchase was made.

Yes, you're still not making an argument why these actions would in any way would be a effective way to regulation.
You are right.

In other words, they want people who'll work for them without complaining. Submissive people. People who won't think out of the box.
Each of these tools has two parts:

- the constraints of the tool itself
- the culture of the organization that uses the tool

One organization could use emails and issue trackers completely asynchronously with scheduled twice daily checkins.

Yet another could use them for near instantaneous communication.

As always, the technology is usually something that simply exposes the underlying human behaviors.
Your comment reminded me of this, which you might find interesting (if only to understand an opponent's thoughts): http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Public%20Schools/P...
Thanks a lot!
You're right about the screenshots, we realized that are now working on it.
I'll also drop the "s" on projects as you advised.
Thanks for these tips!
I think others answered the question of pointers vs not-pointers reasonably well, but your question implies you already understood that. The interesting thing to me is that they _did_ make some pointer types implicit: maps, chans, etc. Moreover, you can easily hide a pointer in a struct, such that the use site gives no hint as to whether or not you're going to have "spooky action at a distance" for mutations.

Given this, a more interesting question is "Why can't I define types that are implicitly always pointers?" I don't know the answer to that. My guess would be path-dependent design. As I understand it, even maps and chans were explicitly pointers for a long while in the early history of Go.

I've found that I can classify all structs in to two groups:

1) simple record values with all public fields; rare methods for convenience or specific polymorphism.
2) encapsulated machines with all private fields; only accessed through rich method interface.

Any blending of public and private fields has turned out to be a mistake in my experience. For record types, the implicit copying is valuable for passing data around. With encapsulated machines, I almost always want all usages to be a pointer. I wish I could define types like this:

type MyMachine *struct {
...private fields...
}

Which would basically compile like this:

type machineState struct {
...public fields...
}

type MyMachine struct {
*machineState
}

One problem with this approximate macro-expansion is that you can't use "nil" for MyMachine, instead you need to use (MyMachine{}) as a zero value. I'd change that across the language too and just make nil a proper polymorphic literal zero value for any type.
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I'm not sure I understand what this is in reference to. Mind providing some more details? I'm genuinely curious.
The point is not to have much of the environment hidden from sight. The point is to prevent the 'All I see is open road' feeling. On a slightly too simple note, the point is to make you feel like you need to be more careful without actually adding a lot of risk.

One might say the current road design makes roads feel so safe that the actual safety benefits get canceled out by changed behaviour.
A Mathematical Model for Growth
I am probably the odd man out here, but I took two semesters of COBOL and really enjoyed it. I have been trying to figure out how to get into COBOL programming, but the job postings are few and far between and seem to want more experience than I have. I honestly think I would be really happy programming in COBOL day in and day out.

As an aside, I think part of the reason I like COBOL is because I am an above average to very good academic writer. I enjoy writing papers and find it hard to meet page minimums because brevity and clarity is important to me. These characteristics (good, clean, to the point writing) seem to translate to COBOL more than any other language that I have used.
You're asking "how can we study" all the time.

But if there was a clear answer to that question, it won't be science.

Science is figuring out how to study things that we could not study previously.
You can also scratch the trading itch by buying a small amount of some of the more specialized etfs and just holding forever. Think water is the next crisis? Look into PHO. Think India's being underestimated in the world economy or Palladium prices are going to skyrocket or the US tech sector will outperform the broad market? There are etfs for that, just use them sparingly and do your research.
It is not on the net, but it is on a LAN that has a firewall somewhere that is leaky.

This because it is cheaper in the short run to string a single physical network and then use vlans etc to attempt to keep medical stuff from talking to accounting or the visitors WiFi.

This so a single overworked nurse can monitor a number of patients from a bank of monitors hooked to a thin client near the ward entrance.
Umh... You shouldn't have the 3 underlined. I'll check that.
Thanks for letting me know about this.
True that ratio is more relevant to savings where your target scales with local COL. That's true for some things, not for others.

Though I might argue, regarding an emergency fund in particular, that establishing and maintaining such would be something that should be accounted as an expense rather than savings.
It's kind of heartening to see programming languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Ada still are chugging along helping folks solve their problems. I think instead of trying to replace the language how about we design modern hardware and software to work around it? Isn't that where virtualization can help (I'm assuming too much probably with this question considering how many programs of that era are hardware specific)?
> And the next logical step would be a virtual dressing room

Hey, that was my old startup idea!

Also, I kind of wonder why this still isn't a thing; the technology for doing that cheaply has been around for at least 7 years[0], and just being able to quickly view many different outfits on yourself would be useful enough that even I (a totally fashion-oblivious guy) would consider using it.

Still, in a perfect world, such a thing would be implemented entirely locally (again, the tech required for doing that is old), with only clothes database being downloaded. This is exactly how this won't be implemented - it will instead send data to cloud for various anti-consumer, business-friendly reasons.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
Hear hear! Ive always thought that in the case of a not quite extinction level event amd society/knowledge slides backwards, having easily accessible fossil fuels would help kickstart a new industrial revolution.
Can you explain (as much as you're able) what kind of application you're building with Elixir + Vue? I've been casually picking up both of those and I think it's a stack I'd like to make a lot of use of, so I'm curious what your experience with it has been.
https://www.tarsnap.com/

It's weird that they would go through all this other effort and then have this obvious fail right at the end. Sure, I understand convenience for, say, a web UI or a mobile interface maybe, but it's really odd that they wouldn't have implemented the obvious, client-side-only version first.
And both are written in Java. Using a different runtime would make
a differentiating point in some applications.
But these terms make some amount of intuitive sense on YouTube or Spotify. I don't have to know anything about YouTube or Spotify other than they deal with video clips and music to have a decent idea what a 'track', 'video', 'channel', 'playlist' might mean. These terms don't translate that well to 'notes', though.
not illegal use of order flow
Energy consumption here does not mean just current electricity usage. It also includes things like fueling cars and planes. Also, the 150MW/km² is apparently roughly the summer expected solar insolation; year-round average insolation comes out to ~100MW/km² per the book's numbers.

The total chart at the end came out to <https://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml>, with solar making up about 68 kWh/d per person.
To the extent that customers actually change their behavior, that is a positive development. I'm not sure the effect size is particularly large.

Efficiency programs have been pretty successful, and the overall trend in power consumption (in the US) is negative for now, which is great. But relatively few people even know what fuels are used to supply their power, so I'm not sure how easily consumers can respond.
Hackers use OAuth, fake Google apps to phish users
I wanted to bring a different perspective to what everyone else has been sharing.

I volunteer with a program assisting refugees from Syria. I met people who have had to undergo the worst that humankind has to offer. I met men, women, and children who have been shot, amputees, children suffering from PTSD, etc.

I learnt of stories of 10,000 missing children, some of whom were taken from the beaches of Greece by smugglers. Some of them would put themselves in the human chain of people assisting refugees disembarking boats.

I had to come to terms with refugees who acted selfishly and had learnt to hoard everything they could get their hands because that's how you survive living in refugee camps. I judged them, then felt guilty about judging them.

I am yet to find anything positive coming from this experience. It screwed me up. I went through panic attacks and had to get therapy.
Secure against a dedicated attacker, yes. But telnet listening on port 23 and a conistent default admin password on all your devices is really not that hard to improve on (and that's the sort of device that BrickerBot is killing).
Silicon Valley.
consider that for some people the alternative to quitting is mental health breakdown that often results in conditions that will MOST DEFINITELY cause your ex to miss her alimony payment, well, I'm not seeing what your point is.

if it's really a matter of life and death, and it is, then doing what you need to do in order to step off the ledge is the only thing that matters.
The Norseman had one small colony that was attacked by people already inhabiting North America. They settled the Eastern tip of Canada then departed. These people, if they existed, would have colonized all the way from Western Alaska to California, meaning they would have had numerous settlements, and in an uninhabited continent.
Final Investor Update
pg answered your questions conclusively in http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
I backup to rsync.net, which is basically dumb storage. I use borg, which dedupes/compresses/encrypts, and then uploads.
We are running this[0] with some postfix boxes in front of it. Works quite well for us.

[0] https://github.com/ushis/mailhook
It's completely not for us ("us" here being people not super into fashion, since this isn't really a fashion website), I wouldn't think, which is why we look at it cockeyed.
I hope that all these toilets being built are actually being used, serviced and maintained by the people of the community. I have seen TV reports where these toilets were being built to achieve targets and end up being either filthy because no one maintained them, or used as storage(?). This, along with a massive awareness drive(the govt has some ads running on tv) to push people towards using these toilets. Many challenges ahead, and I can only hope for the best for the motherland.
> The problem is that getting things into small individually testable components
> is literally anathema to the Pax/grsecurity model.

no, you're wrong. how do you think we developed our code? did all the 8+ MB worth of it pop out of our head all at once? or more realistically, did we develop the features piece by piece, not unlike how upstream linux is developed?

> They have very specific "chunks" of functionality which are quite invasive, by design.

define invasive. linux itself has 'quite invasive' features too yet that didn't prevent them from being developed and upstreamed, so not sure what you were trying to imply here.

> This goes against the model the Linux kernel is developed, so the two development
> communities are simply mutually exclusive.

this narrative only exists in your head, not in reality. our work is as much upstreamable as any other kernel code that went in over the years (how else do you think some of it could get in already?), it's just that it can't be done in one's free time.
White House Unveils Tax Cut Bid
P100 probably?
> Unfortunately, in many places, it’s not
> feasible to lay down sewer pipes or build
> treatment facilities. [...] But giving
> people access to toilets isn’t enough. You
> also have to persuade them to use the
> toilets.

I can't find it now, but there was a news video making the rounds a year or two ago that showed that this problem is much more fundamental than that.

It showed a Indians in a tiny village who were falling ill because they were literally taking a shit in the same river that they were getting their drinking water from, just a few meters away.

These people all knew each other, and even if they didn't have any toilets or basic infrastructure I would have thought that something as basic as "if you shit where you drink, you get cholera" would be common knowledge anywhere in the world by now.

Of course it would have been nice for those people to have sewer pipes, toilets etc. But in that case the problem could have been solved with a few shovels, and a marked area indicating where you should be going to do your business, preferable in some open field far from the drinking water.

For those people toilets would be nice, but unnecessary. They clearly all have a shared interest in not drinking each other's shit. If by some magic they aren't aware that mixing shit with water leads to bad consequences that seemed to be solvable by some one-time government presentation on the consequences of them keeping doing what they were doing.

But somehow the problem persists, it's unbelievable.
So if the next election goes the other way, you're going to be supportive of the Chris Saccas of the world and discount the Gary Cohns and Steven Bannons? (note I purposefully am picking two very divergent points of view from within the Trump administration who happen to be multimillionaires).

At the end of the day, I personally care about actions and how they stack up against my personal ethical and moral compass. You are obviously free to use whatever method you want to decide if someone is doing good in the world. And yes, Sacca is free to spend his money however he likes. I also support Rebekah Mercer's right to spend her money on vicious attack ads. I don't have to respect her for it -- regardless of who won the election -- and you don't have to respect Chris Sacca.

Regarding monocultures -- circumscribe a set tightly enough and everyone comes from a monoculture. I don't think Sacca is any less exposed to divergent viewpoints than the Mercer's are, to use a relevant example.

And finally, just to respond to your overarching argument that Sacca has some responsibility to use his money in a particular way. He may believe so, and that wouldn't make it any more your business how he does it. And if he chooses to spend it on wine, art, and yacht collecting because that's what he wants to do with it we can both believe he can do better (Larry Ellison, if you're reading this: you can do better) -- but the society we live in hasn't made us the arbiters of good billionaire behavior, more's the pity. :)
Whoa, this blew up! Here's a working demo that I just hacked together: https://adtac.github.io/commento/comment.html

Edit: sorry, I had to purge the comment list because of an update. From now on, your comment will only be alive for 30 minutes. It'll be deleted after that. This is, of course, only for the demo.
Implementing a tax on the land would remove the tendency to speculate upon it.

Currently, why do people buy real estate as an investment? It's not because they believe the actual building materials will become more valuable, but rather that the land will. We see far more of "land banking" than speculation in commodities, insofar as commodities tend towards marginal cost.

Anyway, if a land value tax is in place, the land value increase won't be captured as profit, and thus all locations will only be used by people who mean to use them.

There is no reason to believe that middle class residents will be "chased out." However, we would see market incentives that would lead to gradual densification in residential areas that are encountering rising demand.
It's outlined in the article, but I think it's worth saying again: the most difficult part of what they're doing seems to be getting people to change their habits.

It's the same psychology involved in pollution and climate change. Because people don't see an immediate reaction to for instance plastic-pollution, it's harder to get them to understand the serious effects that it is having.
Moreover, what's driving low natgas prices in the US is the use of hydraulic fracturing -- 'fracking' -- which injects some fluid, often water, horizontally along an entire layer of shale to free the trapped gas. This technique enabled formations like the Marcellus Shale [1] in WV, PA, OH, NY to be economically viable to extract, and this formation grew to be the largest producer of natgas in the US.

There are many unanswered questions about the long-term impact of hydraulic fracturing on seismic stability and on groundwater, and the technique is under scrutiny in many parts of the world. Predictably favored by energy-lobbyists and opposed by environmentalists, fracking remains a contentious issue whose future in the US could depend on a "simple" party change -- hardly a sure bet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Formation
My wife does this daily thing where she tries a pair of clothing, looks at herself in the mirror, sometimes ask my opinion, then change into complete different outfit, repeating the same process until she settles on what she would wear.

I swear, my wife would LOVE this product, unless I can scare her about the security implications.
It does look neat and definitely beautiful. Thanks I'll login and check it out some more.
Tarsnap is a service known for being done right. It's build by the former security officer of freeBSD.

It's fully aimed at power-users though. I'm sure all of my family would be more secure on backblaze because they couldn't set up tarsnap right. For myself though, I use tarsnap.
Google could hide proof of either statement by manipulating its search results.

I'm not suggesting this is actually happening. I'm pointing out that when you have a single distribution channel for information, users have no choice but to assume the channel hasn't been tampered with.

Of course you could have papers, conferences, and so on proving otherwise. But if they existed, you would only hear of them by word of mouth - which would rely on being in or around a professional network which took an interest in such things.

If Google decided to censor or manipulate the search results about a topic, it could become extremely hard to access reliable uncensored information.
Sexism and Second Chances
I agree with the overall theme of this article, but I would also claim that we can't put all of the blame on the biological effects of being poor. The life choices we make still play a part (which is, after all, influenced to some degree by our biology).

As an anecdotal case, my sister and I grew up poor. She's 6 years older than me but I'm doing significantly better than she is economically. We were raised in the same environment, had the same nutrition, went to the same school, have similar genetics. I could relate all to well to the "mom hiding the foodstamps" line noted in the article.

I think the area where our paths diverged was in terms of the choices we made as a way of dealing with the stress we faced. She found comfort in other people, I isolated myself. She got pregnant at a young age, I cut off other people and focused on my studies. She got married, I worked to get get enough financial aid to go to college. She got divorced and is struggling to support two kids, I have a good career but have never had a serious relationship.

It could have just as easily gone the other way for both of us. I could've gotten some girl pregnant, she could've gone to college and become successful. Perhaps that's the random element of chance noted by the article's author, but I still think it came down to the choices we made.

For what it's worth, I don't think I'm better than her at all. It has taken me years to realize that we both did what we did as a way to deal with our mental issues. I'm still fucked up in my own way, but I guess I'm lucky in that I don't have to worry about making my rent payment or putting food on the table (though, as the article's author also stated, I still feel like the rug is about to be pulled out from under me and I'll have to live on the street).

One thing that does bother me, however, is that my sister to this day says, "I wish I could [something]" or "It must be nice to [something]" in response to what I do. It discredits the effort I put into what I have accomplished. Even if luck played a small role, I still put in a whole lot of effort. On top of that she criticizes me for my reclusive nature, which is a real low blow, in my opinion, and has made our relationship as adults rocky, to say the least.

Forgive my rambling. Just seems like this article was something I could really relate to.
Webby Awards 2017: Best Podcast Episode – Winners and Nominees
I'm grateful to have read such an honest take on a critically important myth.

Solutions seem to be both psychological and political. The situation look grim.

Psychologically, people within many cultures have developed a pressure point around self-gratification (the faster the better). Wanting to reap the benefits of one's full potential is huge nowadays, in a wide variety of ways. God forbid you don't become your best self, otherwise you may be trapped in the social pit the author was given a ladder to escape from.

Politically, the Powers that Be effectively mine the vanity, fear, and resentment that make up modern meritocracy. People's incomes literally depend on portions of the population being terrified by the prospect of being poor and/or disdainful of those in poverty.
Few things to note:

- Robinhood Gold is not just about margin trading. It is also about instant money transfers. What truly prevents me otherwise from frequent investing is this long delay (upto 2 days) where I sell something and wait for money to be available for next purchase.

- I will happily pay Robinhood say $10 per month anyways for the kind of service they provide. Getting $2K credit for that is not really a big deal.