skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Markets should be tailored to the needs of its users.

Well, they are. HFTs do 70% of the volume, so the markets are tailored to their needs.
The "un-enforceability" of the clause really depends on the judge you get if it goes to court (if it's not codified in law). By not being proactive, you are rolling the dice on how the judge will rule (and on all of the fees associated with defending yourself in court).
I sort of wonder if Microsoft could create a mode for Windows where if it detects a security update available, it MUST update. I have spent a lot of the time trying to get Windows to just fucking STOP, but there are environments where security-before-use would seem ideal.
The slowness and cost of international bank transfers has nothing to do with technology used.

We could make a million of such transactions per minute using $1000/month hosted server. We have the technology.

The problem is legacy infrastructure and the fact that banks benefit from high fees on international transfers.

There is at least one successful business (transferwise) that makes international transfers much cheaper and faster using terribly inefficient work-arounds.

If banks were at all motivated to fix the issue, they would, using Java and a database. They don't need blockchain (which, btw, is slower to settle a transaction than updating a record in a database).
He's not saying it's not being developed by geeks. It clearly is! He's saying that the geeks responsible for keeping the global electronic financial system running haven't adopted it, as they have with other technologies that made their task easier. It's a subtle point (and not one I agree with as being dispositive).
It depends on the state. In California, for example, Non-completes are notoriously unenforceable.

I'll sign whatever illegal documents you want me to sign, knowning that they don't matter.

You might respond by saying something like "what if they go after you anyway, even though it is unenforceable.".

But the problem is that they could just do that anyway, illegal contract or not.
They work around that by calling these employees 'freelancers'. Which is of course bullshit since there's a top-down relationship, but these employees don't have the means (resources/info/money) to combat this in a court of law.

The trick abused before was hiring people as interim, and then sacking them right before they had to be hired permanently by law. I know first hand even the government in The Netherlands did this in '00. However this still means these people need to get minimum wage (actually, more, since the employment agency also demands a cut). As you can see, the freelance trick is more lucrative.
React Workshops 04: Universal React with Next.js – React on the Server
Culprit behind 2014 CIA hack turned out to be the CIA
I used a similar extension called Write Space for a long time. For some reason it's a 404 in the Chrome store right now but very minimal and useful.
You're leaving out South Africa, which would explain the english plus german/Afrikaneer accent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326512
FWIW, I have also checked into hotels that don't check my passport (or look at it) but the vast majority of them do check and write down the info. Especially in Nordic countries I find people do check the insides of passports. Six days ago I checked into a hotel in a Nordic country and they checked both of my passports and looked carefully at the photos, in sharp contrast to the rest of the world.

I think, especially for a foreign woman in small Norwegian places in the 70s, that people would check passports.

And yes, 70s passports were easier to fake. Still, if she had multiple fake passports, as well as with the circumstances from the article, I have a feeling that this isn't just some independent person playing spy. Using a fake passport to escape the GDR makes sense: that's something a non-spy would do. Using multiple fake passports to check into hotels in a foreign country, meeting with Germans in Norway, evading detection, then getting killed by someone who knew what they were doing? That doesn't sound like a non-spy.

But yes, the problem here is that if each of my assumptions has a 10% chance of being wrong, and I make 5 assumptions, my final categorization has about a 60% chance of being correct. Still, it can put the search on the right track: searching a small list of people (short female aged 25-40 that was a USSR, GDR or BRD spy in the year 1970 with gold teeth and brown eyes) makes the search a hell of a lot easier.
Umm I don't think you are getting the fundamental logic here. America has pushed propaganda, but they also allow movies that make America look bad: botched CIA missions true or not, slavery, different look at revered historical figures, greedy American leaders/FBI/CIA or whatever. They don't purposefully stop what makes America look bad. China does, there is a huge difference in that. Secondly, the government itself doesn't control what gets pushed out (in very rare classified instances .001% they have before) the free market does. Some audiences love pro American movies, some love anti-American but it's capitalism not propaganda
International money transfer is indeed a big problem, and TransferWise has built a billion-dollar company over the past 6 years solving it, just not with blockchain.
Cool project! I bet these would make great styles for deep dream images.
> (op­tion­al­ly) a Byzantine-generals so­lu­tion too!

What is this referring to? In all of the ways that I've seen the Byzantine generals problem phrased, it's presented as impossible to "solve".
Actually Facebook has shamelessly copy-catted WeChat continuously over the last 2 years
and there are no easy solutions

From a problem-solving standpoint, I don't think the solutions are really that hard. I think some of them are downright easy. What's hard is getting anything done in the current environment. Perhaps that's what you meant, though.
> And with­out ex­cep­tion, I ob­served that they were ini­tial­ly load­ed in the back door by geek­s, with­out ask­ing per­mis­sion, be­cause they got shit done and helped peo­ple with their job­s.

This is precisely what I see happening with bitcoin. Bitcoin addresses keep popping up more frequently every day (with WannaCrypt being one recent and unfortunate example). Despite the scalability issues and regulatory uncertainty there isn't an easier way to send value around the globe. And this isn't simply because banks face a huge regulatory burden. The settlement systems in place are very complex and archaic and blockchains promise a fresh start for a global settlement layer.
The dedicated cargo freighter market has been in decline for quite a while, but the volume of cargo has been increasing. The reason is cargo goes in the holds of passenger aircraft. This is nice extra money for the airline: the plane was going to go anyway, the crew is paid for, the fuel difference is minimal etc.

Remember that planes are already double decker (triple for A380). They look like this: https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4c732e2865f73d86b72c5a...

The bottom deck has fuel tanks, passenger bags, and space for cargo. The A380 (passenger version) is problematic for cargo because there are two passenger decks which means up to twice the lower deck taken up with baggage leaving less for the cargo.
> I always thought it was white noise + bandpass

That would be equivalent to this approach, right?
For bitcoin to succeed it doesn't have to be used by banks. Banks already have a system set up that relies on trust and enforcement of contracts.

I'd say that bitcoin has already succeeded, just not for the use cases that the author cares about.
It's not an impassible divide, just a mentality difference. I'm not sure where you live, but my county has ~60k people (well, year round residents).
> Skeumorphism only makes things worse.

To unlock an iPhone you had to slide the lock, which is similar to how you'd open (old) doors. Isn't in this case skeumorphism helpful?
> But the problem is that they could just do that anyway, illegal contract or not.

The difference is that with an illegal contract, your future employer might actually believe it's more headache than it's worth to fight. I would err on the side of casually striking it out of the employment contract, simply saying "this part of the standard document doesn't apply in our state" etc.
These are good points in general, but I don't think they're relevant to the author's partitioning of PI to get extra precision near the zeros. The article does a good job of explaining exactly what's going on here, and has plots to prove that nothing is going catastrophically wrong.
Apple, I believe, is the wildly successful exception.
Not really. High fluctuation of bitcoin's value is the real killer when most expenses will need to be paid in a not-bitcoin currency.
Have you considered voting with your wallet and not using the Alexa service?
Australia used to be one of the world leaders in hypersonic flight research. That doesn't quite equate with Boeing/Airbus, or even Embraer/Bombardier, but suggests similar potential like with Russia.
Is the onenote data not available as XML?
South Africa's intelligence service at the time was pretty small and had a small budget, and seemed mostly constrained to domestic matters. Why would they have a spy on an apparently risky mission deep in Norway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Bureau_of_State_...
A quick google search showed the following companies who buys data.

- http://www.bigdataexchange.com/

- http://www.exapik.com/

PS: I am not familiar with any of these.
the "belt and road" is a nothing burger.

"The Chinese government had hoped to assemble a weightier guest list to Mr Xi’s premier international forum, which is occurring just months before he formally begins a second five-year term in office. But many heads of state and government, especially from G7 and OECD nations, were reluctant to participate in what they thought might be little more than a propaganda coup for China’s ruling Communist party.

Only seven EU heads of state or government, most from smaller eastern European countries, accepted Mr Xi’s invitation, while Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta will be the only top-level African VIP."

https://www.ft.com/content/f89060ac-36c7-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0f...
....so why do I have 6000 XLM in there that doesn't count?
Perhaps by ways the DMCA, for "p0wning" DRM('d) modules?
Imagine how bad it would have been if someone actually competent had chosen to weaponize one of the NSA exploits? This seems to have script kiddie written all over it.
I agree. Economists are definitely not giving Piketty the cold shoulder. He is a star in the field. His protege, Zucman, killed it on the job market.

There are definitely some economists who disagree with him, but if you go into any academic field and you'll find plenty of people disagreeing with the field's luminaries.
The complex issues within cultural appropriation and art
This sound kind of reminds me of one of these "Space Engine Sounds" on youtube, especially the Firefly/Serenity themed track.

I used to love it for sleeping, it's rather relaxing.
UBI does several things. There's no single "the reason".
Early childhood diet has a huge impact on the development of the jaw. An underdeveloped jaw is what leads to crooked teeth. One substantial evidence of this are the studies conduced by Dr. Weston Price. For over ten years, he traveled to isolated parts of the globe to study the health of populations untouched by western civilization. His goal was to discover the factors responsible for good dental health. His studies revealed that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth are the result of nutritional deficiencies, not inherited genetic defects. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, good physiques, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of native groups on their traditional diets, rich in essential nutrients.

https://robbwolf.com/2013/08/29/dentistry-harmony-nature/
Safetynet is not spyware

> Even if you ignore the stuff Google is doing, we know for a fact that all cellphone basebands contain code to turn them into listening devices and have universal backdoors.

What has to do that with the OP claim that Google puts spyware?
I believe the anecdotes in this thread range from about 1 month to 2 years, iirc. I've been feeling a little burnt out lately. But reading this thread reminded me of how much I have to be grateful for, and there were many good tips. Like focus on the positives. So for me, like 1 hour or so :)

There are many factors at play here.

How bad is it? What is the cause? How long does it take to address the cause? Ie if the cause is not having meaning, how long does it take to find something meaningful? If it is a bad community, how long does it take to find people you like?
In this comment I disagree with Piketty. It is written very rigorously, you must find a very careful deductive argument in it. (Otherwise it's useless.)

So, the rest of this comment makes a very dense argument, first using a proxy argument and then switching in the actual argument. The proxy argument is correct but probably you don't like reading it. So just get through it like bitter medicine.

So. Proxy argument. True statement:

Computers are inherently unegalitarian because smarter people get more utility out of them. You simply cannot give the same amount of utility to a dumber and a smarter person at the same capital cost.

So far you might be thinking "Huh? You're saying smarter people get more pleasure out of reading so the Internet is unequal? What the hell... Anyone can read, who cares if some people get more pleasure out of it and others less?"

But the problem is that nearly the same argument applies to startups and creating wealth. Instead of utility (personal pleasure from the Internet), you are now discussing "access to the wheels of capitalism".

Musk slept at the office and shared a computer. Sergey Brin is a Ukrainian immigrant.

The reason these people have unequal results is because computers are inherently not egalitarian: smart people just get more out of them.

You can't stop it, any more than you can stop smart people from getting more pleasure from reading. Can't be done. sorry.

Here is a question Piketty didn't ask: what percent of dynastic, billionaire wealth was created in a single generation in America?

Not addressed at all.

[EDIT: removed reference to more information than is contained here. This comment contains all of the information to understand my point.]
The guy who taught his son programming langs from early days and that son was largely responsible for the Clojure Instaparse project. The duo discussed it on the Cognicast. That topic is the bulk of the interview.

http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/122
pretty sure the world doesn't want an authoritarian dictatorship like China, who acts like a retarded bully with Taiwan and Dali Lama, who oppresses its own people in hong kong and xinjiang, who is belligerent with most of its neighbors like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, India.
> The difference is that you don't have to write "std::move" in Rust: the compiler just infers the right thing to do.

And of course since it's the language's default you don't have to write a dozen lines of boilerplate either, this is the C++ code stripped of the interspersed text:

class MoveOnlyInt final {
private:
int i;

void release() { /* call to release function here */ }

public:
explicit MoveOnlyInt(int i) : i(i) {}
~MoveOnlyInt() { release(); }

MoveOnlyInt() = delete;
MoveOnlyInt(const MoveOnlyInt &) = delete;
MoveOnlyInt& operator=(const MoveOnlyInt &) = delete;

MoveOnlyInt(MoveOnlyInt &&other) { i = other.i; other.i = -1; }
MoveOnlyInt& operator=(MoveOnlyInt &&other) { release(); i = other.i; other.i = -1; return *this; }

operator int() const { return i; }
};

This seems like a fair Rust version, with as you noted the "move source" becoming inaccessible rather than just being in an invalid state:

struct MoveOnlyInt {
i: isize,
}
impl MoveOnlyInt {
fn new(i: isize) -> MoveOnlyInt { MoveOnlyInt { i: i } }
}
// Rust doesn't have an "operator int", this seems close enough
impl<'a> From<&'a MoveOnlyInt> for isize {
fn from(m: &'a MoveOnlyInt) -> isize { m.i }
}
I work for a Fortune 50 that has excellent benefits. I mean we have a freeking pension which these days is rare. My healthcare providers are regularly surprised by what my medical insurance will cover without a fuss. And yet my dental insurance is garbage, despite the fact that presumably my company offers the some of the best care they can find.

Combined with the high pressure sales tactics found in the modern dentist's office, is it any wonder people are afraid to go in?
My guess would be DMCA anti-circumvention issues.
Office is hardly nuclear physics. Any college grad can reasonably be expected to pick up what they need within a week or two.
Ideally, in a free society, laws are upheld by police enforcement. Thieves would therefore be unable to sell their products to a pawnshop, and the pawnshop would be unable to fence these products.

Of course, a society might fail with that goal but that doesn't make the goal invalid or non-existent.
Right, exchanges benefit from HFT in transaction fees. Which is why they have little incentive to change anything.
It sounds odd for a suicide, I admit that.

I was several times in the situation that I had to check into Hotels without a passport or with "modified" data (don't ask). It is nearly always possible. Even in CHINA I was able to stay into hotels without a ID/passport. Something that should not be possible by law.

"Still, if she had multiple fake passports"
You phrase this like a fact. If you tackle such a problem the right thing would be "she might have had..".
You can never take such information as "proven facts". If I would assign something then: a 50% chance that she had faked passports.

Also, spies normally don't use so many different passports in the same country. Looks odd to me.
I dont understand much of the "hate" that goes on with bitcoin/blockchain in tech circles. I get that people may not like the ideology/uses of some of the people involved but that to me has nothing to do with the tech. I downloaded a wallet and by using twitter I was able to have people send me coin within minutes and never had to identify etc. I know of no other medium that could do that.
Sorry, I should have realized the route went through gauge changes, even though both ends are the same gauge. That's a pain. It's a routine operation, but a big one.

Not sure what they do about loading gauge. The UK has many limited loading gauge lines, due to old tunnels and bridges. No way will a double stack container train fit in the UK. Here's a brief world loading gauge summary.[1] The leftmost outline is the general UK limit; some lines have more clearance, especially the ones that connect to Eurotunnel. The next one is the general EU limit, small by world standards. Note the round top. AAR Plate B is the basic US limit; any Plate B boxcar can go on any US mainline track. 95% of US track accepts AAR Plate C, the "hi-cube" boxcar. AAR Plate H, 20' 3" high [2] is for double-stack container cars. Union Pacific and BNSF have upgraded to that level.

China and Russia go in for big loading gauges like the US, being big countries with long distances to cross. Watch for China lobbying the EU to upgrade for heavier freight.

[1] http://emdx.org/rail/Gabarit/ComparaisonGabaritsEuropenEtAAR...
[2] http://www.icrr.net/plates.htm
Doesn't every theater have automated ticketing kiosks now?
Darknet believes.
>there are no easy solutions

What's so hard about shifting the burden of tax from income to wealth? Week after week having 30% of your income taken away is what prevents a lot of people from ever getting ahead.
> In a state that allows noncompetes, it's in pretty much every employer's interest to use them and enforce them as much as they can

If I may nitpick, I'd argue that it only appears to be in employers' best interest to use/enforce them, in the same way that the butts-in-seats/time-in-office metrics are used to gauge performance. It makes sense in a first-pass estimation but breaks down when one considers the cultural impacts. People tend to dislike feeling powerless, which is exactly the effect of non-competes.
When I got into bitcoin in 2011, it had a market cap of $20 million, and already had several killer apps:

- Making darknet drug markets possible

- Allowed permissionless, highly convenient storage of wealth

- Allowed large, rapid, low friction money transfers anywhere in the world

Now, in 2017, Ethereum has a market cap of 8 billion, yet I can't find a single use case for this technology other than enabling other scammy ponzi-like coin offerings.
Why did Emirates purchase so many compared to other airlines with many of the same routes (Qatar, Etihad etc) or similarly big hubs (Singapore).
It isn't something we have been looking at, as our current customers and target applications would have our chip as a standalone embedded processor. We are working on a prototype PCIe card with an FPGA to be able to convert our SerDes to something a PC can talk to, but it isn't really a priority unless we have someone come to us directly asking for it.

As for upstreaming, it is something that we want to do, but are not sure if it will be accepted as our chip is not generally available at the moment. It would probably be done around the same time as our next tape out (which would be in larger quantity than our first one) when we would have generally available development kits this coming winter.

I have been working on public documentation in my spare time... originally supposed to go out in March but we have had other priorities. If you watch my Stanford talk I show the basic ISA overview as well as the WIP documentation made using doxygen. I'm hoping to get stuff out on our website before our next media push in ~June.
You don't get clicks for writing articles about [fellow] economists if you don't insult them for not having the same opinion and research focus as you, preferably without recourse to intellectual honesty. Piketty's Capital has more citations on Google Scholar than some of Friedman's better known papers that formed the basis of macroeconomics policy and arguments for half a century...

No doubt in 5-10 years when the fashionable economics theory du jour concerns debt or housing or tax incidence or technological progress - and large sections of the economics profession do respond - the author will be amongst those chastised for "ignoring" such pressing issues by not abandoning his interest in researching inequality to write papers focusing on Fashionable New Theory instead.
It doesn't matter if you're attacking, denigrating, claiming inferior, etc. The point you made is flawed or inaccurate, and that doesn't change because your motivations are clean.
Of the three "The Sheep Look Up" was the most interesting to me. Read that and then read Benford's "Timescape". You won't be able to sleep for at least a week :-)
I think you misunderstand my point - I'm not talking about bitcoin hype. I'm actually incredibly impressed by the innovation that bitcoin represents. I don't think it's found its niche yet (aside from the obvious black market applications and pointless financial speculation), but it's a real innovation. I'm talking about "X on the blockchain" type startups, e.g. some of the companies on this list: https://medium.com/the-intrepid-review/the-top-10-blockchain.... Many of these things are perfectly possible without using blockchains (and some are just egregious users of other buzzwords) but are more likely to get VC investment because they use over-hyped technologies arbitrarily.