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>What position you take on free will need not impact your position on consciousness, at all.

But the reverse is not true. If your position is that consciousness is the result of a deterministic biophysical process, then your premises also inform your position on free will, unless you're willing to invent new systems to rebuild free will, as stated earlier.
I too have used soylent for breakfast, for maybe the last 4 or 5 months. And funnily enough, I've gained more weight! Which was the goal for me, as I'm a little underweight and needed to stop skipping breakfast.

I've been using their coffiest drink, and kill two birds with one stone. I do sometimes miss the experience of making my own coffee though, so I may try the powder instead.

I will say though, at the beginning I was not a fan. Bowel movements changed, felt weird and bloated, and so on. But it stabilized after a few weeks.
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Because it's hilarious?
And maybe they will make money. But they aren't making the company just to make a profit from it- they're making it to increase demand for rockets, which they also make.

The smart industrialist expands his business to become his own supplier and his own customer.
I thought it was about LinkedIn selling people's profiles :)
And a write-only prototype.

I'm sure it could become more readable with some more time invested.
If the CPU violates its spec then the code will violate its spec, sure. That's not an abstraction leak though - if the CPU violates its spec then hand-crafted assembly would also go wrong.
I don't buy this argument, whose implicit corollary is that there can never be too much liquidity. I'm not an expert and don't have an opposing theory, nor do I want to do a bullshit refutation by just citing something I found in a few seconds on Google, but:

I feel there must be some ideal level of liquidity, which is after all subject to laws of supply and demand like everything else. Cannot an oversupply of liquidity result in fiscal inflation, as opposed to the monetarist kind? I'm reminded of the Asian financial crisis during the 1990s, when there was a ton of money flowinginto newly-developing markets int eh Asian region, but then a spasm of political uncertainty suddenly led to a catastrophic withdrawal.

Echoing one of the other posters here, I don't feel that anyone at this firm or the firm itself is acting in bad faith, but assuming this mathematical demonstration is correct and it's virtually impossible for Virtu to lose money other than by abandoning its winning strategy, does this not invite an arms race and a stampede of eager traders hoping to also get rich by picking up pennies from in front of steamrollers?

I don't want to say you're wrong, but to question the applicable scope of your premise. Virtu itself may not be big enough to cause market instability, but 100 firms doing the same thing might.
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Most Japanese websites are designed around phone usage. Older sites - around clamshell phone usage.

Very text heavy, lots of (small) banner ads everywhere, and it all makes a lot of sense if you browse it on an old pre-iPhone/smartphone era internet-capable device. Desktops never really "caught on" in Japan. It was all about cellphones.
> it's theft as well when people who keep buying and selling property keep profiting on people who actually keep companies running, who keep losing.

I still don't understand what your complaint actually is? How are people who buy and sell stock being unfair to those who work at the company? The company got it's fair deal when it IPO'd and sold shares in exchange for money to operate. That investors later trade that stock back and forth between themselves doesn't affect the company who already got paid. If an investor makes money off a stock going up or down, it has no affect at all on the employees of the company so how exactly do you figure they're being treated unfairly?
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Traditionally market makers do more than match orders from other parties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_maker

This is because sellers don't always want to wait around for buyers and vice versa.

Sellers that are worried they have poor market visibility can just put in a limit order that they believe represents a fair price.
Rural areas are getting wrecked by globalization everywhere. Not just the US. Spain, btw, is one of the prime examples. Yet no opioid addiction.

Assuming that people kinda decide to just do drugs because despair is a bit ridiculous. Theres always a reason to do drugs. Almost noone was born an addict, and if you reason that those addictions originated at doctors appointments (prescribed medicine), it was probably not some kind of recreational turned addict thing.

Or are you trying to argue that its the national sport of rural folks to go to their local doctor and check the opioid menu for the flavour of the month opioid to shoot up their vein because they're out of a job and feel despair about it? That sounds a bit far-fetched.
Can you explain this in terms of actual orders placed? How do you "sell at a certain price"?
I agree that this is not an attitude to take to the detriment of partnerships. However, as an antidote to worrying about potential future demands in lieu of focusing on business development, it is an available and effective if perhaps heavy-handed mental modeshift!

FYI: Our next round is $10M and we are oversubscribed, but I do not claim to be an expert at raising or anything else for that matter.
I think you're confused about how HFTs create value. They create value because they're the first ones to make a market in something.

They send out limit orders in every product. An investor then sends a marketable order to the exchange that fills one of the HFT's resting orders. If the HFT wasn't there then the investor's order would just fill a bank's order that would probably be wider and wouldn't respond to changing situations as quickly.

The innovation is that HFTs are able to make better markets with fewer people. This means that less money ends up in the pockets of intermediaries and more money stays in real investors' pockets.

Are HFTs always doing the right thing? No of course not, but HFTs are pretty clearly some of the most ethical firms out there.
Absolutely right. PDF fixes the problem Word documents have where different versions of Word tends to render the document ever so differently. Usually in a way that seems to mess up all those beautiful page breaks you meticulously planned. It does this by every element having absolute positioning.
> As a participant, you’ll need to gain access to FUN3D software through an application process with the US Government.

This is not at all ready for a competition. The least they could do, if they want professional volunteer help, is to open-source the platform that everyone would be deploying on. It was probably built using public money, after all.

Sigh, no shame:

> FUN3D is: Code developed by the US Government at US taxpayer expense, ...
Summary:

-- Their trades are profitable f = 51% of the time, and they do N = 3 million trades per day.

-- Their net profitability per day is thus (well approximated by) a normal random variable with a mean of f
and a standard deviation of sqrt(f(1-f)/N), or 3e-4

-- The probability of this value being less than 50% is well approximated by norm.cdf(0.5, 0.51, sqrt(f(1-f)/3e6))
which gives 2.4e-263

In other words they only expect one loss per 10^263 days, which is much larger than the age of the universe. They are actually doing much worse than expected because they lost on one day.
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I think the code is much more readable and less annoying with inference. And as for your examples, you don't need to know the types - the compiler will complain if you try and use them inappropriately whether the type was explicit or not.

But the issue you have glossed over is that sometimes there is no nominal type - there is only an anonymous type, as for example returned by a LINQ query using new{}, or via monad-style combinators where you really don't want to see the type for fear of your eyes bleeding.
One thing I'm curious about: do liquid diet like Soylent change the brush border in our intestines in an appreciable way? If I went completely soylent for a few months, and then tried to eat something more...raw, would there be any changes in digestion?
The guide suggests adding Google Authenticator as a backup. Doesn't that mean this isn't any more secure than just using Authenticator? Why can't a crook say they don't have the key, and proceed to hack Authenticator?
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Err, bo tai means rare beef and it is easy to acquire in Vietnam.
I know that everyone's situation is different, but I really don't get people who accept that kind of commute time unless it's something you want or you have no other options. (I know people who like to drive and get their only "alone time" in the car on the commute, so it works for them, but they tend to be the exception.)

If you value your time at $100/hr (probably low end of the spectrum for a skilled dev in most of the US), that comes to an opportunity cost of $4,000/month you're losing to driving back and forth. And that doesn't even start to account for the actual costs of driving, nor the mental energy of dealing with doing it. (I want to bang my head against the steering wheel after 30 mins in traffic, and then spend at least twice as long decompressing and not productive after that.)

I know that's very different than $4k cash for most people, but it's worth thinking about
> but its useless as far as i can tell,

That's because you, as well as 99% of people accusing financial firms of being useless, don't know what you're talking about.

One of the reasons planned economies usually fail quite spectacularly is that individuals are very bad at predicting global market behavior. It's too complicated. Local stochastic optimization (free market economies) works quite well, even if it's maybe not globally optimal; doing better than free markets via central planning requires an unfeasible level of omniscience about all market actors and interactions.

This refrain of "traders do nothing useful" is a great example of that; most people are too myopic and/or economically illiterate to see otherwise.

Here's what traders do; they communicate price information (extremely important) and charge a small commission for doing so. In the absence of regulation on "Wall Street" (or whatever your regional synechdoche), there would be more competition among people communicating price information and profit margins would probably be a lot smaller. If you can do a better job communicating price information (possibly by predicting future prices), you can make more money.

Another auxiliary job that traders do is provide liquidity, which is very important but (in my opinion) less important than the first.

My apologies for being a bit blunt, but I think people deserve a bit of admonition for attacking that which they clearly don't understand enough to even criticize coherently.
> which suggests that Edge's PDF engine is re-rendering the original PDF, rather than printing the original PDF as is

That's to be expected. The bitmap which Edge has rendered to the screen is not what will be sent to the printer driver. Instead, rich vector graphics will be sent. On Windows, the native print format is XPS, so this is most likely a bug in how Edge converts PDF to XPS for printing.

For simpler use cases Windows' graphics APIs can be used to both render to bitmap and to XPS but when printing something as rich and sophisticated as PDF better results are achieved by directly targeting the native print format, such as PCL, PostScript, or XPS. I suspect that's what the Edge devs have done and why it's producing different results on screen and in print.
The closest I could get was this [1] which seems like the CNBC report was not made from an actual report but instead: "In a research note this morning, Cowen analyst Vivien Azer downgraded Molson Coors (TAP) to Market Perform to reflect expectations for persistent beer volume headwinds".

An Investment bank took a public position in something and now we get a bunch of articles and inferences fed to the general public as if they are absolute certainties. Investment banks are always right and have no self interests ever... right?

[1]: https://thefly.com/landingPageNews.php?id=2536820&headline=T...
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> I use this feature often on my Mac (which I think many would claim has excellent support for dealing with PDF files) to build a PDF that is stripped of any interactive forms: so as to get an output which is only the PDF "as printed".

Interesting; sort of like taking an old Fireworks .fw.png file, and then exporting it to PNG, to get rid of the Fireworks project data. Never thought of using "Print to PDF" this way!
Pro-tip: Figure out a way to work from home some days. You'd save 2-3 hours. Give one to your company and one to yourself.
I wish this kind of playful banter was more common on HN.
I'm very sure this was entirely intentional. In a position of power you need to reduce those whose favor you have to buy.
My two-year-old son calls my DSLR "phone". So I guess you're right. Just like "WiFi cable".
Living in the city means no commute which means lots more quality time mornings and evenings
Definitely better. Next suggestion would be to decrease spacing between each header and its details below, as well as minimize the number of font sizes you have (your by line and your tags lines are 1.5em and 1.6em, your header is another size and it also differs from the number size on the left of it). These things are more stylistic design choices, whereas the font type was definitely a usability concern.

Personally I would pick a font that is less vertically stretched, but again, stylistic choice at this point.
Oh sure there is some blobology to it still...but the nature of the function attributed is becoming more precise.--not a memory blob, a blob associated with signal orthoganalization. But that is just the functional neuroimaging in humans in which we are working downwards, while neuroscientists using methods that influence activity at the neural level, or even the dendritic level, work upwards. Each informs the other. For example, the computational models of pattern separation and completion are derived by observations of the structure of connections between neurons, which led to hypotheses about what kinds of operation it could support, which led to tests of that hypothesis in rats, and eventually in humans. But at the heart of it, I don't think we have to be completely reductionistic to gain understanding. We don't have to fully understand in every detail how dendrites operate to understand that a collection of neurons can support a particular data transformation.
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> Companies should defer judgement to the courts rather than make arbitrary moral judgements.

Uh, no. Please no. I do not want the courts to arbitrate morality. That's a far far far more dystopian world than one where corporations do (supposing I accept their false dilemma). Companies can, in theory, be created by any person, with any moral alignment. That is not the case with governments (minus authoritarian ones, which function in the context of moral-defining as more or less the same as a company).

Additionally, deferring to the courts also leads to the ever terrible "this is moral because it is legal" and "this is immoral because it is illegal."

There is not a correct authority on morality to which you can defer. You cannot offload such decisions and wash your hands. Any moral decision you make, including deferring to some other moral-decider, is entirely your responsibility.

Note: I'm doing the naughty thing of morals=ethics. I know this is pedantically not the case, but I'm 99% sure that is what the article means. And, in general, this is also what everyone means outside of targeted discussions.

> ...if someone is infected with spyware they're probably better off infected with secure spyware.

I think this is a great ethical issue within the security community. There's many arguments against working for a company you have ethical disagreements with, but that becomes much more grey when it comes to security. Sure I might not agree with the mass surveillance of the government, but wouldn't I rather help the NSA not leave piles of malware sitting around on C&C servers than let it be exposed to even more malicious actors?

Security could use a hippocratic oath.

> FlexiSPY has not published a vulnerability disclosure policy or committed to no legal action against hackers. Both protective steps would be required should their program be hosted on HackerOne.

I'm surprised HackerOne doesn't have a policy surrounding this already. Are hackers who submit issues to HackerOne not protected?

> We will not take action against them based exclusively on moral judgements.

Hooray, kinda. I think this is a maxim that HackerOne could extend to not making moral judgements relevant at all, and to instead institute policies that reflect HackerOne's current morals. This increases transparency and allows HackerOne to say "We reject you because your company's goals/actions/whatever explicitly contradict our policy that everyone wear unicorn hats on Tuesdays".

> Their business conduct is not in line with our ambition to build a safe and sound internet where the sovereignty and safety of each participant is respected.

I think now would be a good time for HackerOne to write this stuff down. A very brief look at their site and the only thing I can see relating to this is the tagline "Make the internet safer together." From which sovereignty implications can be drawn, but having such policies explicitly stated and publicly available not only allows for transparency in decisions, but also works as an advertisement, "Oh hey, this company wants to protect my digital sovereignty, neat!"
Apropos of nothing, but I just migrated a site to metalsmith, and I've really enjoyed the results and ease of building out any functionality that was lacking in the framework (though most needs were met already).
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This is how it works often in Europe, a paper slip with a bunch of one-time tokens. I don't see how any technical solution would be better in security or usability.
OK I'll bite.

Soylent is $2.69 / 400 cal and vegan.

To get the same macro ratios you don't need the corn meal, the shakes have plenty of carbs, you can do 1 shake @ $3.33 + 15g coconut oil @ $0.55 + a few cents for the multivitamin = ~$4.00 / 400 cal.

(You may still want the cornmeal for fibers and slower carbs, since the carbs in the shake are all from milk and cane sugar.)

So it's more expensive, requires preparation, is not vegan, and the glycemic load is probably worse. Beautiful.
This kind of articulates a larger attitude I feel about startups in general - too many people are going for too much. Right now, a bunch of companies are going for too much of the metaphorical self-driving pie.

But, there's a lot of niches with less competition - yeah, the slice might be smaller, but I'd rather have a 90% chance at 10% of the pie than a 10% chance at 90% of the pie.
Interestingly enough, it's incidental to prime-age men (25-54) and more correlated with marital status than race or age: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/the-mis...
Sorry if this is over personal, but how does getting married change things? Were there more changes than marriage at the same time? I'm not married, but have been living with my partner for 3 years, together for 8 and am about to buy a house with them, so I'm wondering what I've got ahead of me!
I bet this at scale, like a github for medical records, would be revolutionary.
lol wut. talk about strawman
I feel like Terminator 2 should be required watching for these devs, no?
And I bet it will help with that- but I don't see that as the sole purpose.

He's an industrialist. He saw he'd need batteries for his electric cars, so he said "I should make batteries". Then he said "Who else needs batteries? Solar producers". So Tesla now makes cars, batteries, and solar panels. That wasn't just by chance, that was planned.

Now he says "I have a rocket company I want to scale up, but I don't know if demand will be there". So what does he do? He makes a company that could be profitable, but more importantly fills in the demand he wants to have for his rockets. The rocket business is bigger, which makes it more stable. The internet company might work, or it might lose money, but it's still a tool to the real goal.

This is why Amazon made AWS. Because they needed cheap, simple cloud infrastructure. Alexa/Echo helps people buy more stuff. They're building a shipping infrastructure ostensibly for themselves but probably soon enough for customers as well.
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A quick skim still makes this look much more secure than any alternative I've seen. Sure, it's not perfect, but a lot of those flaws are due to particular implementations, and most apply equally (or worse) to other systems.
Unless you're a bank or have similar means you can't compete.
So something is obviously wrong with their model.
Firms with enough money to spend _can_ get a more accurate view of the market. The issue is proprietary data feeds. A trading platform is required to disseminate information to the consolidated tape at the same rate they do for a private feed, but that only holds for the "walls" of the trading platforms network. The consolidated tape is a LOT slower than a 100MB multicast feed being slurped up by a co-located server sitting 20 feet from the trading system.
A bigger commitment than driving 2 hours? I definitely don't know the difficulty of managing time while having young children, but it's easier to justify cutting down on commute time than cutting down on exercise time.

Maybe consider talking with your boss about working from home two/three times a week, that commute time could then be a break in the middle of the day to work out, and a little extra time at the end of the day to be with your kids.
One good thing is that we are moving towards where most devices will have USB type c as a port, so that mobile devices, laptops, and desktops can all share keys.
And now you know why rent in big cities around tech hubs is so crazy high: because its worth it (and building more housing will just attract more people)
I don't like artificial sweeteners because I am worried about changes in gut bacteria. There's some research suggesting it may.