skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again,the products are good. It's not like Comcast where I feel screwed when I can only use them. If I want to use a different email provider right now I could very easily, but none of them appeal to me.
Let's agree that you can't have it another way. But there are still huge questions attendant to that arrangement.

For example, should opportunity be unlimited, or is the prospect of earning enough for a very comfortable life sufficient motivation?

Or, how much are we willing to let families build dynastic wealth? Shouldn't wealthy people's children be expected to compete without a huge head start over the children of poor families?

Shrugging suggests to me that the conversation is over, but I think it's just beginning once we recognize that this is a fundamental economic force. How do we harness it as a society and pursue a just world?
The Perl NOC: perl.org has a new look
The train goes to a yard off High Speed One (built to the standard European UIC GC gauge) rather than anywhere on the domestic network. It won't be double-stacked anyway, as the structure gauge through Europe is too small for that to be possible. It'll be single-stacked 9'6" boxes on standard wagons.
> Not sure that'd help. I think that would make the problem worse, because actual market participants don't care about micro pennies.
When you buy a stock from your banker, you don't care that you buy it at 65 or 65.00001.

Who are the "actual market participants"? Why do you believe they don't care about sub-penny differences, or sub-second differences?
SCMP is blocked? I thought SCMP had been bought by a pro-mainland owner and was now taking pro-mainland government positions.
Why is there value in sub-second, but not sub-millisecond? What makes that distinction not just an arbitrary assessment?
unique_ptr requires an allocation whereas this does not, but it is using the same language features as unique_ptr.
In this fantasy world can I spend my whole life partying in university, or is there some time limit?
Why Bitcoin Isn't Worth More Than Gold
Looks terrific!
I don't think the creator would be too keen to create anything unnecessary that could be linked back to them through a paper trail.
"if you're completely unwilling to accept a clause that limits your employment after leaving the company, your starting point should be an agreement that doesn't have such a clause in it. Don't give them the impression they can talk you out of it."

You don't have to be willing to accept it, just be willing to hear their side of the story.
That's not true; if no one offered "underpaid" work we'd pay more tax, so that interpretation doesn't work.

What you don't understand is that whike "existence of poor costs money", underpaid jobs do not made people poor - you'd have to assume that if companies where held to a minimum wage, that they just pay that (and/or raise prices), rather than employ less.
This means China isn't happy at all. They need to fake that 7.0% growth every year for eternity, even though everyone knows it's all fake data, and most likely they're not even growing.
Yeah those zombie antipsychotics are terrible. Whatever they fix is not worth the total anhedonia they cause. They can also cause severe liver damage. Glad you found a way to cure your ailment.
aha, and i see i'm not the only one who thinks so: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/rejectio...

though a bit of it is in your camp as well:

> It's a worm — a boringly old-hat idea first introduced into fiction by SF author John Brunner in his 1977 novel "The Shockwave Rider".
All I see here is "Please turn on Javascript and reload the page".
You're taking things out of context. If you know to get to your doctor, you haven't "lost your mind." That's what I said. And it makes perfect sense.
(1) -- ok, sure

(2). That is not what I said. To sell at P+dP, you need to buy up all the shares at P+dP as well. That's because of price-time priority, which almost all the major markets have (with some exceptions, most notably NYSE -- and even then, their book is mostly price-time priority). This is the idea that a person who placed their order first, has priority over those who placed their orders after. A strategy that makes the trade that you are proposing must then also take out all of P+dP and sell against the incoming order. In a usual case, you pay commission when trading into that position, and (maybe) earn commission when you sell it back (as the liquidity provider). In no market is the commission earned greater than the commission paid. The shares you buy-and-sell at P+dP are straight up loss, and that's before figuring out if X (the incoming shares that you are supposedly front-running) is greater than the #shares at P+dP anyway.

"The risk he takes only depends on the size of N" -- that is true -- that is always true, if you are making an unhedged trade.
'idohft responded (well) directly to your scenario, so I'll respond on a meta note:

Putting aside whether or not your scenario is possible, profitable or actually front-running; by your own admission, not all of HFT is illegal, so why do we need to care about HFT trading based on the order book? What is sinister about formulating a trading strategy based on the order book itself?

In case this hasn't become clear - I am trying to demonstrate (Socratically) that the premises you're deriving your conclusions from aren't entirely coherent.
Was Vista affected by this?
If HFT is so awesome why don't you try doing it yourself?
Well, they build roads and trains. Something that they know. The Question: Will it be enough? Some people claim that there are no more reasonable investment opportunities left in China.

"The power plants in Pakistan, as well as upgrades to a major highway and a $1 billion port expansion, are a political bulwark. By prompting growth in Pakistan, China wants to blunt the spread of Pakistan’s terrorists across the border into the Xinjiang region, where a restive Muslim population of Uighurs resides."

Well, yes. But there may be other ways to do this. China just wants to have Pakistan as a close ally. If India is an ally of the US, it is a good idea to have an ally that can counter India.
I have been one of those who critisized this new feature and have been banned from the community. Moreover, there are also Upwork Enterprise jobs that exclude freelancers from certain countrys (physical locations) without mentioning a reason why those freelancers/locations are excluded.
I agree with you that a minimum wage law is effectively a ban on pay for very unproductive work, but I disagree with you on what that implies.

If someone can't support themselves, then I believe that the wider community should help.

The two groups of people which I have in mind are: 1) those who can't produce enough value to support themselves, and 2) those who can produce enough value to support themselves, but who are not paid a large enough fraction of that value to actually do so.

My understanding is that X is set high enough so that people in group 2 will get a large enough share to support themselves (so it moves people from the poverty-stricken group to the somewhat-poor group at the cost of company profits) while still being low enough such that anyone who produces less would fall into group 1 anyway, and would therefore need other more direct help, independent of any minimum wage laws.

Is your position that for any X, some people will be forced into group 1 who would otherwise consider themselves self-sufficient, and that the cost to them outweighs the benefit to those in group 2?
I'll have to take a look at the documentary. Sorry that had to happen to you also. Guess we are brothers in arms. Thanks for sharing.
> I'm still under the opinion that protecting consumer privacy belongs to the Federal Trade Commission.

This is Pai's stated position as well.

I disagree with you both; I think the two commissions deal with different levels of abstraction and have different regulatory models (prospective licensure vs retrospective enforcement, for example).

However this is a topic on which reasonable people can disagree.
Branch prediction under latency constraints is a difficult task! I believe perceptrons are the SOTA right now (have recently beat out TAGE predictors to take the crown once again) but are very energy intensive, the alternative is (which is currently used I think) are two level look up tables.
Why do you need more than 640K of ram?
> But it is a very inconvenient problem, and most economists and leaders have a vested interest in not solving it.

I don't have an opinion on the matter (haven't Piketty) but saying such things really is a conversation killer and makes me question your honesty. You are basically questioning the intellectual integrity of anyone who is critical to an idea you support. If you genuinely believe that, I urge you to get out of your bubble a bit!
Far superior to state run propaganda as to what?

Far superior for manufacturing consent? Sure. The western system of propaganda is far more competitive, innovative, or you can call it distributed in the way it hides its agenda in a network of proxies of capital instruments, which is exactly what it would evolve into with the free market. But what is dangerous about it is that this mode of propaganda is smarter than the people. In states with state-run propaganda, the people are smarter than the propaganda.
>...orchestrated a global attack on this scale?

Was it "orchestrated", or did the worm just spread randomly and opportunistically?
Anyone can have a psychotic break. Has nothing to do with "nuerotypical" or any of that jazz. All I was saying, was his "loss of mind" was cute. Because he got himself to a doc.
My undergrad was primarily in Econ, and it was a pretty common saying that "Nobody is a Macroeconomist."

After Economics moved hard away from Political Economy and into Mathematics some time ago, that kind of broad economics is rare so not really considered the same way or has the same amount of academic discussion.
Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication for First Time
Yes I agree, that is a systemic change instead of a fudge. I'd only want UBI if it's funded by LVT though as otherwise rent will simply absorb UBI funnelling yet more money to landlords and banks.

I'd get rid of income tax and replace with land value tax. Perhaps something at the extreme upper (> 200k) end but mostly I'd make rentiers pay.
Just wanted to say you are awesome, actually having the energy to argue with all the people who neither understand how markets work, nor how HFT works.
Step 1. Get the biggest, baddest gun

Step 2. Plant a flag[0]

Step 3. Declare the land now belongs to you and a descendants.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8
Salary Negotiation (2012)
This is great. I've messed around with IoT things at home and using Docker makes a lot of sense for portability between devices. Your guide has reinspired me to build stuff, especially with ARM ready base images, thanks!
We don't know whether they tried to use it and reached an agreement covered by an NDA (do you accept or spend 10X the amount on legal fees?). Similarly, we don't know whether it was ever threatened as part of a labor dispute: I first heard about it in conjunction with the class action lawsuit about unpaid overtime and it's very easy to imagine that the same manager trying to do that wouldn't hesitate to threaten someone's ability to find another job, secure in the knowledge that nobody working that job has the resources to lawyer up.

That power disparity is the fundamental flaw in your argument. The theory you're repeating sounds great as long as the parties have roughly equal power and knowledge, which just isn't true.
Which means you also have to control immigration so that you don't get too many poor immigrants on those benefits.

Now the same poor immigrants that would have suffered from a low wage, suffer from never entering the country in the first place, and suffering a low wage in their home country with no benefits.
It's a fairly regular thing. If you are a Google Chrome user, then your WWW browser has been doing much the same check, for fairly similar reasons (detecting whether it is running inside an environment where DNS service is being generally altered to redirect clients to a special server), for the past half decade.

* https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random...
They're not offline, theyre just not directly connected. Instead, they're on an in-house network which relays the info back over VPN, or can only be connected to specific addresses over VPN.
I sadly suspect if a large corporation with a very small ethics department or a state actor wanted to subvert these networks, they would have very little trouble doing so. Another comment mentioned Stuxnet which proves that point rather well.

Fortunately, these plants I am talking about are food plants (yoghurt, pudding, and such), so the risk of some foreign government wanting to shut down that plant is rather low. ;-)

And the risk of becoming infected by drive-by malware is contained by not letting these machines talk to the Internet.
(There is one connection to the regular corporate network, which does have Internet access, to tell the ERP system how much of each ingredient is left so the Purchasing department will order new ingredients on time. But in my benevolent imagination that connection is one teeeny-tiny hole through a humongous firewall.)
If you change the name or location of the shell to something other than "/bin/sh", plenty of legitimate software would break too.

Even though the POSIX standard says:

> Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by `getconf PATH`, ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell
built-in.

> For example, to determine the location of the standard sh utility:

command −v sh
Replicant 6.0 released
I don't see why this is downvoted. Microsoft has done exactly this with other products including core is stuff.
Some vertical markets use a lot of software that integrates with Microsoft Office applications. The result is that there is a much higher change of a Microsoft update breaking a critical application. [0] is a recent (September 2015) example of two Microsoft patches that were widely blocked in the legal industry until Microsoft released a follow up patch. iManage and Workshare, the products mentioned in the blog entry, are considered critical applications in any law firm that uses them. iManage is a widely used document management system (think primitive VCS with Office add-ins). All documents are stored in the DMS so access to it is critical to the business. Workshare is used for document comparison and metadata scrubbing. Metadata scrubbing is used on all outgoing emails.

[0] http://www.kraftkennedy.com/block-2-microsoft-patches-preven...
Ask HN: How did WannaCry spread so fast?
Most Ransomware I've heard us spreads through infected downloads or email attachments. There seems to be a "worm-like" property of this one that allows it to spread within a network, using that NSA exploit. Can someone explain what this exploit is and how it works? What hole is it taking advantage of?
> But we don't have a solution to the problem of global capital chasing efficiency globally, and thereby hollowing out the middle of the income distribution in Western economies.

It isn't a solvable problem, honestly, is the big secret no one really wants to admit.

Capitalism, by its nature, is going to chase efficiency globally regardless of what you do to prevent it. Technology, over time, is going to make this worse because it is easier to avoid inconvenient regulations by operating out of "friendly" countries as well as enabling automation that really only leaves "services" that pays very little for many people who used to have better options.

The truth is the Middle Class is going to shrink no matter what you do and you are going to basically end up with a very large gap of people making 6 figures (who can afford to hire people to handle things for them) and less skilled people who will be reduced to jobs servicing them that barely pay above minimum wage.

People don't like "income redistribution" but that is the only way to actually solve the problem long term. It needs to be done in a way that working is still incentived but where those relatively low paying service jobs + the redistribution leaves people with the housing, food, and health care they need.

The reality is, the bottom 50% in most countries need about 20% of the national income to be happy...and in the US they are getting about 12%.

The problem is, right now, that is politically impossible outside of a handful of European countries.
Google found over 1,000 bugs in 47 open source projects
> Market authorities should disallow sub-centisecond trades, and allocate the trades that fall on the same centisecond at random.

This is similar to, but strictly worse than pro-rata allocation as used in quite a few products in the US. Pro-rata allocation has its own set of problems, namely that you encourage people to quote in larger size just in the hopes of getting a partial fill.

There's also a larger speed advantage under this model because participants who are able to enter orders at the end of the centisecond time period will earn outsized profits.

My estimate is that your proposed market model actually rewards speed to a greater extent than the current market structure.

You also haven't demonstrated that pure price-time priority is bad in any way.
Great stuff, I was trying to find something like this for days. Is there any other website, where I could keep track of new features?
Why Elon Musk’s companies keep doing what others don’t even consider possible
> If r (the rate of return on capital) is less than g (the growth in output) that means that people have no incentive to build wealth or become more intelligent to deploy that capital more profitably. If I'm never going to make more than the growth in output, why bother with capital?

The idea is that you consider yourself a smart and educated investor. Therefore, you are confident that even with r = g, your particular investment is wise and will yield a huge profit.

> So yeah, capitalism may be inherently inclined to wealth inequality because some people outperform. But do you really want it another way?

You can get a rate of return that will consistently be higher than the growth of the economy by dumping your money into an index fund. I would consider that more like taking advantage of other people's work than "outperforming" anything.
Does the Mac have any ability to warn when someone attempts to install malicious software, other than the usual warnings about unsigned software? Windows 10, for example, will scan every attachment before opening it, catching a lot of stuff before it can do any harm.
To the extent their mission doesn't involve making us more secure, why are my taxes paying for them? The NSA sounds like a swamp that needs draining, in the parlance of our times. They're breeding mosquitoes.
> if they need to derive equations they could probably use some piece of software(symbolic solver?)

The point is to understand. Having some software do it for you does not help with that.
Ah, but this is the nature of salary employment. There is no clock, so there is no such thing as "off the clock."
Sure. Knowing what's going on at the very bottom is useful for thinking through performance issues. Huge datasets run into hardware constraints. Knowing what's going on at the bottom can be useful there too.

It's not mandatory, but it can be useful. The 3rd differential equations class may not be mandatory for a career in physics but it can be useful to understanding the foundations of the field. Learning Latin isn't mandatory for becoming an English teacher, but understanding the roots of words can be helpful.
Did he just tell off the Stanford audience, "No one here reads, except for Sam."?

He reminded me of this anecdote: In an intro to Anthropology video on Stanford's YouTube channel. The professor passed out a questionnaire that included, "Why are you taking this class?". Someone wrote, "Yes". I expected that kind of response in my biz classes @ CUNY, but not @ Stanford. Especially, in an Anthropology class.
> Not joking btw. It's rather amazing that employers who expect rational, logical decision making on the job want applicants to suspend their reasoning and good judgment when it comes to negotiating compensation and employment terms.

Which is when you move on to the next employer if at all possible.
Growth only affects the happiness of those who own not who do the actual work.
McCain tried in 2008: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/20.... The Democrats immediately attacked it as "taking away your existing insurance".

It really is baffling. Everybody would understand that it would be terrible if employers were the primary providers of housing, food, or transportation. But for some reason with health insurance, we not only accept but demand it.
You can read this issue as a PDF by clicking on the gear icon. This article begins on page 296 of the PDF (page 294 as numbered by the magazine.)

Here is a direct link: https://ia801705.us.archive.org/12/items/80_Microcomputing_I...
None of that matters. China is spending hundreds of billions to "support" several countries. In reality to own those countries and to bring business back to China. In corrupt countries about 10-20% of the total is going to the elite (cost of doing business) and they'll never forget that China made it possible. If they do, China will undoubtedly remind them.

Also, whatever the cost, China is not spending that much anyway: the engineers are Chinese, probably the workers are Chinese, the tech and materials where possible are Chinese so a nice chunk of that money if flowing back to China. Brilliant, especially since China has a lot of $$ reserves.
Agreed. One day owning land in perpetuity will be seen in the same way as owning a slave.

It's an absurd context, you own a wedge of the earth because your great-granddad took it.
Ah, I thought he already had it. Duly noted, thanks for the correction.
Sure but this generated a lot of press so it made the vuln more known; Microsoft released a patch and systems are likely less vulnerable to the same attack.

Similar attacks using other vulns or tooling are inevitable but this is prob much less impactful and the registration probably mitigated a lot of damage
One thing about EU vs US comparisons: EU is not a monolith, it is an organization with 28 different member countries.

Some of EU members are on the same level as US (e.g. GDP per capita is $51k for Netherlands, $48k Germany), and then there are poor, post-communist countries like Romania and Bulgaria which have GDP of $20k, which brings EU average down.

Same goes for unemployment: Germany -> 3.9%, Netherlands -> 5.1%, Spain -> 18.75%

Plus, there is no such thing as "European attitude towards the work", because Europe is very diverse in that regard.
Love this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COQgS0MUcAA7-RK.png
I wish he was more direct and too-the-point. But, if he were, people would end up accusing him of being rude. What's the polite way of saying, "If you can't put a damn map on your poorly designed building, how are you going to solve the big problems in the world?!"
Can companies buy land in between towers owned by competitors, and erect radio-opaque billboards ?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I would guess that sandbox evasion techniques aren't intended to stop one-off reverse engineering, but rather to get around the bulk programmatic analysis that Google or FireEye does. Those require an internet connection or a replaying proxy because a lot of modern malware comes as a minimal package that downloads its payload from the web.
The USPS is also losing money at an unheard rate, even amongst VC backed startups in Sv - $60+ billion in the past 10 years.
Severance is a wholly different matter. It's completely unrelated to a noncompete clause.