skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trading firms create value by providing liquidity.

Obviously true when they're added to market with little to no liquidity.

But hard to see as true when you're adding them to market that is already extremely liquid. At least, it's a statement that needs some empirical justification in that case, to show that the value from marginal liquidity being added (which is tiny) offsets the waste of the incredible amount of human effort used to create it.
> If we are okay with having a third party handles our messages, VoIP etc, why not the phone app?

Because of the privacy implications, as the author wrote in the article.
Consciousness is vital to AI because there are vast amounts of data that can only be measured through consciousness — data that AI absolutely requires to solve the hardest human problems. This type of data is called "qualia" — the experience of pain, for example. An unconscious AI can process data about what causes pain: brain activity. Only a conscious AI can process data about pain itself, and only because a conscious AI measures pain from its own experience of pain.

The same can be said of any conscious experience that follows the spectrum from fear to love, terror to joy. If we want AI to solve human problems, it will need data about what it feels like to experience reality, and that data can only come by being conscious itself.
Well.. 1+2+3+4+5+6 == 1+1+4+4+4+7 --- a bug with a sense for 'numerology'!
You're equating not-done-in-the-market with unnecessary. Public goods are hard to fund via markets -- for instance, if the U.S. military vanished tomorrow I don't think it'd be replaced by corporations competing to sign you up for defense against invasions by offering the best service at the lowest price. (This also shows a downside of governments providing public goods: we in the U.S. are buying way more "defense" than optimal.)
I recently tried Ample Original and AmpleX, and I like Ample Original quite a bit. The only other product I've tried is from Super Body Fuel, though that one had a pretty different macronutrient profile and required some preparation.

I agree that the focus on nutrition is a huge benefit. In addition, I appreciate the transparency of the company and what seems to be a desire to iterate and improve on their product. Today, they announced a few small tweaks to their formula and released a "change log" (their choice of word) detailing the reasons behind their choices.

Do you personally feel any physically different or have noticed any health improvements upon switching to Ample from Soylent?
As a new cmake user these two presentations have been essential in getting started with "modern cmake":

[0] http://thetoeb.de/2016/08/30/modern-cmake-presentation/

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/DanielPfeifer1/cmake-48475415

And this blog post also has some good stuff:

[2] https://rix0r.nl/blog/2015/08/13/cmake-guide/
> How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too?

Fun fact!

Did you know that the US spends more per capita on socialized medicine (that is, excluding private spending) than any other country in the world except Norway? Sounds crazy, I know.

But it's true:

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

In fact, the US spends more in socialized medicine per capita than many countries spend in total. France, the UK and Japan, for example.

There are not enough palms for a face of this size.
How about the choice to use the default phone app that doesn't phone (sorry) home?
(3) Queen Elizabeth II calls staff to ‘emergency meeting' as Pri
NET Framework 4.7 New Features and Improvements
Physical energy/time, and mental/emotional energy, are different things.

Software development, for whatever reason, directly spends "spoons" (in the sense of https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine...) at a high rate.

Because of this, it's hard to do much else that requires willpower after putting in a day's work as a programmer. You can do habitual things just fine; or procrastinative things. But, outside of those two activity-classes, it's hard to even do the most enjoyable of things—like, for example, watching a serious, dramatic movie—because you won't get anything out of such activities if you don't invest some emotional energy into them, and you've just plum run out.

---

In a more technical sense, it's my understanding that the activity of programming somehow "uses up" a lot of dopamine, and so gradually depletes one's available store of dopamine over the course of the day in much the same way that stress, cold environments, and surprising loud noises are known to.

Thus, a neurotypical person who spends eight hours programming in a day, will end up effectively equivalent in behavior/mentality to a person with ADHD for the rest of the day, until they can sleep it off and recover.

(This means you could probably restore your "spoons" by taking ADHD medication just after leaving work... but that seems ill-advised, for multiple reasons.)
It hurts anybody who sells a stock.

You sell a stock at a certain price, someone else looks up the price of the stock and sees that it is slightly higher than what you listed, because your information is still propagating through the network. That person offers to buy the stock at the higher price. The market matches your offers up. Then the HFT steps in and buys your stock and resells it to the buyer at the price he asked.

There is no value to the seller or buyer. Zero risk to the HFT firm. No improvement in market conditions--the HFT firm doesn't sit on positions, they can't increase liquidty. Just free money from abusing a latency advantage on their view of the market.
I have been using Soylent for breakfast for roughly 1.5 years and it has been great. I've lost weight and I feel healthier. I haven't got sick during this time either from a flu or serious cold. It's a great time saver when used as a breakfast food and will help save you precious time in the morning before you go to work. Time that you could spend sleeping rather than stuck in a drive-through or making something. Works for my busy lifestyle. And I like the fact that I am getting all those nutrients. While I realize it's not perfect now, it's nice to know that they are continually trying to improve it with the different versions. If it's at least half as nutritious as Soylent claims it is, that's a win in my book. And to think it might actually get to that holy grail where it's genuinely great for you then that will be something special. Realistically, this is probably a slow march, but one that I am proud to be a part of. Mixes great with fruit, peanut butter, honey and other food items too which I know is healthy for me.
Ada has had 3 major revisions since 1994. It's changed at least as much as C++.
Any peer reviewed, legitimate studies that suggest GM corn causes problems with beef? It's popular to critique GM, but it often seems like a knee-jerk reaction rather than based on actual scientific studies. And by studies, I don't mean an article in Mother Jones, but actual science.
Any reading of Flash Boys needs to be accompanied by Flash Boys: Not So Fast. Or just a really critical eye. Flash Boys is beyond bizarre in the silly things it implies (like some major manager's trading PC is hacked or something, but somehow that's fixed with IEX). Or how they lament some guy can't buy huge amounts of stock without moving the price. It's a nonsensical book.
After Brexit, a Tiny German Town Will Become the Center of the EU
Openstack is a prime example of this.
If a company provided X amount of liquidity to both sides of the market, even if the company itself only entered a position for a millisecond, it still provided necessary liquidity. It did so in a very efficient manner and turned a profit on that.

Saying that you dont provide liquidity just because you enter both sides of the trade is like saying that a cab going into and a cab going out of manhattan cancel each other out and provide 0 net value to their passengers.
Billboards target lawmakers who voted to let ISPs sell user information
No, or yes if you replace shared passwords with EC assymentic crypto with added protections (test of user presence, taking origin into consideration - signature for Google.com cannot be used on fake-google.com, attestation - you can check remotely if token is from e.g. Yubico if you trust only them).
If an HFT firm was "front running" as you put it, and you know about it, why doesn't the SEC? Front running is not legal. Or are you using the Flash Boys definition of front run which is "anyone that trades better than me" or "anytime I try to buy 50,000 shares but move the price"?
this seems contradictory to me. HFT is basically predicated on front-running information advantages. It wouldn't be profitable otherwise.

maybe you can explain in more detail?
I'm a founder looking for ways to make my next startup family-friendly. I'm a parent of two sons in SF so I know what it's like. A grab bag of ideas so far:

- Allow parents to bring babies to work (0-6mo)

- Locate in suburbs where parents live instead of in the city

- Hire remote employees who work from home

- Establish a culture of taking an office break around 4-5pm then resume at 8pm for a couple hours

- Do social events during the day instead of after hours

- Suspend email delivery certain hours, such as 4-8pm, and on weekends until Sunday afternoon

- Same as above for real-time chat for most employees (some exceptions for things like sales)

- As an exception to above, have on-call schedules planned way in advance

- Flexibility on holidays to help synchronize with school schedules

Other thoughts?
Maybe... you're not as busy as you believe you are?
Yes. All they need to do is 1) not become perforated by fake products and 2) have quick shipping.
I can name two Haskell consultancies off the top of my head :)
Last time I checked, Soylent comes in packages, and requires water to eat.

So sure, you can combine your nutrient goo powder into a single sack, and thereby save a tiny fraction of the weight of the food (and water) itself. But you're splitting hairs.

I picked a mountain house pouch-based product at random on amazon, and the packaging weight was .06oz on a gross of 5oz, or 1.2%. Which is, of course, nothing. I have heard exactly zero people, ever, complain about the weight of their dried food packaging. I've heard lots of people complain about camping food being boring and flavorless.

If you like Soylent, fine, but the claim that this stuff is the obvious best product for campers is silly.
Literal front running is illegal.

The thing to accuse them of is book stuffing.
sorry, i guess there was an ambiguity. i didnt mean to say it didnt "provide liquidity". i meant that what it provided was pretty worthless, in the non-monetary sense.
Seriously, i wish everyone would stop screaming about USB-C and just mourn this. Both would be fine, but removing magnetic charging was a regression
Why the Retail Crisis Could Be Coming to American Groceries
Agreed, research here is that supplements don't have an impact.

Edit: For pregnant women and others for sure. But in the general population no
How is Soylent different from meal replacement or protein powders that have existed for years?
Something is providing the liquidity that has brought spreads down over the last couple of decades.
6-bedroom 4-bath House in Menlo Park for Rent (near Sand Hill Rd)
Large newly renovated house in Menlo Park available for rent to 6 tenants. Every room has ethernet, Comcast internet preinstalled. Ideal for a startup live/work arrangement. Contact me if you are interested.
I think everyone here calls them cellphones. I call them mobiles and everyone gets it. Handy... wouldn't work in Canada, and I suspect not in the U.S. either.
How often does the arrest and prosecution of visa students for cheating on entry exams happen?
I'm a native speaker of American English (California dialect) and I have never heard another native speaker use "auto" for a car except in the context of "auto dealership".
Sure TV's and chinese electronics are cheaper. Houses, healthcare, and education are not. Instead of making 55k a year at the GM plant, they're making 22k as a cashier at Dollar General.

The flood of cheap goods destroyed communities that depended on manufacturing work
f(x) = x > 0 ? 1 : 2

If you give this function a positive integer, it chooses returns 1; otherwise it chooses to return 2. This is what I think choice is.

g = () =>
f1 = (x) => x > 0 ? 1 : 2
f2 = (x) => x > 0 ? 10 : 20
f = f1
return (x) =>
if x > 100
f = f2
f(x)

f = g()

This is a function that can change its mind, and choose different results when it's given different input.

I see this as isomorphic with what you call choice, and I believe that any distinction you see is in your imagination. You don't know what the algorithm feels like on the inside; for all you know, a machine executing these instructions feels like it's got free will. You can't prove otherwise.
Cool name! I'll share it around.
> That's like saying that robbing Bill Gates and distributing the money to millions of poor people is morally good because it's good for many people. - FooBarWidget

> That degrades property rights, so it's bad for the many. - Dylan16807

Straight out of the horses mouth, that's not a strawman, it's literally what you said.

We shouldn't take money from the rich and give to the poor because property rights, but we should take source code from Blizzard and make it public even though Blizzard has property rights to said code because ... it's 20 year old code.

Which has nothing to do with anything, it's their property, they can do with it as they please.
What are the problems you encountered with maven (I've only used it a few times)?
It seems very unlikely to find a way to use these products in an unintended way that would violate some tangentially related patent, but a) it's all hypothetical and b) one should never underestimate the ability and willingness of IP lawyers to allege an infringement.

"You have stored the software on electronic media and used that media as a doorstop, violating our access control patents by keeping the door open."

Hmm. Has that been filed yet?
>To stop cooking entirely is madness,

Does that include takeout/eating out? Because I know tons of people (myself unfortunately included) that have stopped cooking entirely and rely on takeout. It's not ideal but I wouldn't call it madness.
Maybe it's not, but I think of "the deal went south" more as "negotiations broke down", instead of "it cost more to make the things than one party agreed to pay for them."
Elm is also my gateway drug into functional. And Pragmatic Studio was a great start.

Monads then seemed much easier to understand after Elm and reading this: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
How does Mystro app able to control Uber and Lyft?
Apologies. What I am referring is some of the issues of the past. It has been a number of years but IIRC it was a NASDAQ data feed that cost a good chunk extra but gave you a time advantage. Thats what I am referring to, or the fact that at that same time certain exchanges were catering order types for their big clients and leaving those unpublished (also illegal).
You can have a job making 55k and a job making 20k, you're employed but your material condition declined
The people conducting the test also, without the authors' knowledge, got a grad student, gave him eight days to learn Haskell (with no formal training, but the option to ask a more experienced Haskell programmer questions), and then handed him the problem spec and told him to implement it in Haskell. He did it in eight hours with a bit under twice as many LOC as the paper's authors' version. The paper's authors also point out issues with the study, and describe it as showing the possible worth of functional languages, not Haskell specifically.
Abu Dhabi escort +971569052128
escort, massage, full service, HJ, BJ, outcall, incall, body to body
Basically 'Relational Lisp' won. Just three hours development time.
I'm going to try to do some follow up posts in the next few weeks around building this and I'll work to incorporate some of that in there. It was definitely interesting getting this going.
> Which is exactly what was requested in the Lavabit case, to the letter.

What you're saying is not true. If you take a look at what happened in the unsealed documents regarding Lavabit [1] the FBI wanted a copy of the SSL private key. That's it. The owner of Lavabit offered to do some coding so they could target the meta data of a single person but it was rejected so he ultimately shut his service down.

> I used the discovery example to show that courts compel work all the time, which you originally claimed they could not do.

Discovery is seeking data that already exists and is reasonably accessible. You can't use discovery to force someone to write software the doesn't exist to provide additional functionality to a product. The FBI had to resort to using the All Writs Act in order to attempt to do this and backed down before it could go through and set a precedent. I'd suggest taking a look at how electronic discovery [2] works.

Also the HN discussion around the Apple vs FBI case was rather interesting and is full of good information [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_discovery

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116801
While it's true that stock exchange operators are private companies, they are also SROs that undergo significant scrutiny from various government organizations (FINRA, SEC, etc).

Most (all?) exchanges use "maker/taker" pricing, so while it is possible the trading platform might not make money on _every_ trade depending on the exact pricing rules, they do make money in the aggregate, and in general more trades equal more profits. Many of the opponents to HFT believe that the maker/taker pricing model is a big problem in the markets, and doing away with it would significantly curb HFT profits. Personally, I'm ambivalent about HFT. All stock trading seems to me far removed from the actual value of the underlying companies anyway :).

Disclaimer: I was an engineer at BATS Global Markets for 5 years, but have been out of finance for the last 4, so my info may be out of date.
> so this article​ from The Hill claims

It seems like we've been trading away from this kind of procedure for the last decade or so.
> Ethereum offers a lot that Bitcoin does not, but if the valuation were to pass Bitcoin's I think it would be fair to state that it's because the market has chosen to prefer low security, low decentralisation, high (yet unrealized) innovation potential over a decentralized payment system.

It's kind of weird to compare Bitcoin to Ethereum. They are both blockchain-based, but they're in completely different categories. It's like comparing shares in Exxon to an account of Wells Fargo. Sure, you can use them both as a unit of accounting but they're not really the same.

Ethereum is an autonomous app hosting corporation. Bitcoin is an autonomous ledger hosting corporation. They will succeed in their respective markets based on demand for ledgers and apps, the utility of decentralization in those two spaces, and their usability relative to competitors.

Ethers can be used as a currency, but so can oil, corn, and Beenie Babies. Bitcoin's purpose is currency, and the ecosystem around it is optimized for that purpose.

Ethereum's purpose is executing computational contracts, and the ecosystem is optimizing for that. You can compare the two the way you compare boats and fish, but anyone who puts them in the same category without caveat is really missing the bigger picture.
I have seasonal allergies and @codemac for some reason listed allergies (maybe b/c it's a preexisting condition and that's in the news?). But point taken.
> If one is able to write code in Haskell it tells a lot about them, and he might be a better programmer than one who writes in Ada or C++.

And here's the arrogant, self-important attitude that turned me off of Haskell.

When I was using it, I didn't see any evidence that Haskell users are any better or worse than programmers in any other language.

If it were true, why aren't Haskell developers taking over the world with their superior software?

In reality, any new, interesting language is going to attract better than average developers at first, because those developers are always learning new stuff and trying different things.
Have the CDN do it before delivery.
Just to provide a countering anecdote: My cognitive abilities, including those I use during programming, are adversely affected. The extent can vary, but it's definitely noticeable for me.
If nothing else, it means that firms that can afford to collocate their servers in the cage next to the exchange's servers have an advantage over those that can't.

It seems like something like the roundtrip time for a packet from NYC to Tokyo would be a fair "speed limit" for exchanges, and ensure that all firms, globally, are on an even footing.
Someone (I think John C. Peterson) mentioned this paper at the Paul Hudak memorial symposium last year. His comment was the that the comparison was unfair, because the Haskell program was written by Mark P. Jones, who was a good enough programmer to outshine his competitors no matter what language. :)
PGP in the browser: Posteo warns against Mailvelope for Firefox
>Why exactly is HackerOne drawing a distinction with this software producer? I read the whole article and still miss what the controversy with this producer is.

FlexiSpy specifically marketed itself as a tool for spying on your spouse. Their front page used to include "read your partner's sms" https://web.archive.org/web/20060402200643/http://flexispy.c...
Also fun fact for you. Flash Boys: Not So Fast, was written by Peter Kovac. I used to work with Peter @ Madison Tyler (which merged with and became Virtu ~5-6 years ago). He's literally right on with his assessment.

I should have mentioned that, excellent point.
Note that 30 minutes/day is a much bigger commitment for a parent of young kids than other people. I've run the numbers in posts on here before, but the TL;DR is that you've got ~28 hrs of kid-free (and non-work/commute) time a week without cutting into sleep, but before taking out unavoidable activities (prepping for the next day, cleaning, spouse time) that's likely to eat at least half of it. So 30min/day is like 25% of your kinda-halfway-free time if you're sleeping 8hrs, unless you get creative and multi-task with it somehow—maybe you go running with friends so you get some face-time with them while exercising, for instance, though not everyone has that particular option for various reasons. And of course you can always take it out of kid-time, say by "working" 30 minutes longer but taking a workout break during the day.

There's a reason parents tend to get fatter, aside from just aging. :-/
I was the CTO of a series-A backed startup. My entire life changed when I had my kid, and I decided to quit my job and live cheaply in eastern Europe for about 6 months. You can read about it here: https://medium.com/@buf/experimenting-with-retirement-ef6ab0... tl;dr - I retired, and it was amazing.

Since, I've come back to the States and I think I've figured out a good balance. I work remotely now, so I can spend time with the family and watch the kid grow daily. Sure, I won't be a CTO anymore the next few years, but it gives me time to take on a reasonable amount of work.

I think I'll do this for a few more years.
> As I said, that distinction matters for Apple's spurious "compelled speech" argument.

It does not. Just because a government orders you to do something privately doesn't mean it isn't compelled speech. Regardless, see my reply to your other comment.
Um, you were eating (or claiming to be eating) X calories a day and you were gaining weight. That should be the only "source" you need.
This is really a specific example of the benefit academia generally provides to society being highly underappreciated.
Google Kit Brings Voice Control to Raspberry Pi