skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the spectrograms! I'm not exactly sure which aliasing you're referring to... I'm trying to adjust the sampling rate of the noise function so that it maps to "real" seconds in a way that makes sense. By looking at the waveform in the audio editor, it looks exactly like a visual representation of 1D perlin noise to me (http://imgur.com/a/bM4tn). Looking at your spectrograms though, I'm seeing something in the higher-frequencies (and I think I can hear those as well), but I actually have no explanation for where those could have come from.
Playstation is in the streaming business with their Vue product. Not on demand like Netflix, but a leader in streaming cable.
Yep, tried doing that. But unfortunately I could get it to install. Keep getting "This update is not applicable to your computer" even though I'm doing everything right.
Id suggest going to Venezuela and looking for yourself.
And on legacy software. My NHS Trust seems to have escaped unscathed, but it has software that won't run on modern systems which is why XP is still seen in most departments.
I don't think Israel can be ruled out due to 'European ancestry'. Israel did not exist until WW2 and in those post war years anyone in Europe with Jewish ancestry could migrate to Israel and get citizenship, complete with a passport. The 'English with an accent' would fit with Israel too.

Around twenty years ago I did have some friends where all kinds of unusual contraband items were exchanged, up to and including passports. I was not in the market for buying one myself, however, this just seemed to be standard capitalism as applied to the black market - you could get a good fake passport or pay more and get an even better fake passport, i.e. from a decent country. I doubt that the lady was an international cocaine dealer on the run and in need of lots of passports to get across Europe but stranger things have happened and you cannot just assume the lady was a spy.

I have not studied the story any more than the article, however, the travel pattern is that of someone on the run. If you are up against a police (or intel. service) that has proper resources to track you then you are obligated to move every day. This is the most expensive lifestyle to have, not a sustainable existence. In this existence you need to be totally unpredictable, so where you stay may not have much significance other than a need to hide. In this mode of existence you also run out of friends quite quickly so staying in hotels becomes how it is done until the money runs out or you get caught.
His observation is that inequality is raising in most western countries. (It does not increase globally.) His conclusion is that we should tax the rich more - which is not very original and many disagree with. Also, Piketty misses some of the root causes of inequality. He blames capitalism, when in fact the main driver is increasing age. The older people get, the more their income and wealth differs. As society ages, inequality increases. Furthermore, many western countries are importing inequality through immigration. When lots of poor enter a rich country, the inequality in that country goes up. Furthermore, divorces and being a single parent is a huge poverty risk in many western countries. To a certain extent, inequality is the price of liberally allowing divorces and children outside marriage.

So it is not that economists deny Piketty's observations, but they find his recipes to counter inequality overly simplistic.
Change the numbers by a factor of 10 and the point still applies.
> Non competes aren't intrinsically shady or evil.

If they're not paying you while you're not allowed to work in your field, yes, they are. And unfortunately that's a lot of them. If you're being paid to sit in your backyard or do something in a another field, that's a different story.
Those aren't the wrong places, as they work well for some folks. They've simply not quite worked out for you yet. The truth is that everything is a lottery, though.

I'd fully suggest doing social things that you are interested in. A fairly genuine interest - things you would do without expecting a date. Or find some new activities to try - especially things with a mixed group. This puts you in touch with folks that have a common interest upfront. Sometimes the most random places will find a lucky hit :)

I'll also say this: You don't necessarily need someone with a similar education or habits of mind, merely one that compliments you or that you can accept. Values are more important, but you won't really know some of those upfront, only over time. The easiest way to solve this is to talk about some of the things important to you early on, with some tact.

FWIW, my spouse and I met online .... playing a text-based RPG. We lived in different countries, and have now been married nearly 4 years and together 9. We talked about much of this stuff fairly early on. No children happened to be important to both of us, for example.
Amazingly by Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Talib.

(This is from 2006 btw but quite relevant)
What do you think about Georgism? Land is difficult to move or hide, and is an inherently progressive form of taxation
From the gaming side, PS4 is doing great both financially and game-wise, particularly this year.
> For non HFT: it would help them not being front runned by the HFT guys, which means they would trade at fairer price and not have to worry about investigating when they're being screwed. (see flash boys)

Can you describe, in your own words (i.e. not pointing me to an article or book), why HFT constitutes front-running?
I agree.

Docs/code impedance mismatch is a problem that a docs tool needs to solve to stay relevant. Good docs will resemble or contain a test suite.

I agree with your point about blogposts -- publish date is like a sell-by date, makes it clear when the post has gone stale.

Getting insiders to read docs is also hard. Not every piece of code is worth documenting. But I think highly critical and highly reused code is worth documenting, in part for programmers and in part so that non-coder stakeholders can understand the details of the product (i.e. 'sell what you make' if they're on the sales team).
Bitcoin solves the Byzantine Generals problem.
You discuss mostly about places, strategies but it is about emotions and human beings, not business.
If she is a women and you a man, she will take much more risks than you.
Forget strategies, try to be nice and perhaps more than anything, be predictable: You must be trusted by her.
That said, find an equilibrium between what you drop and what you consider to be part of yourself, learn to say "Yes" and learn to say "No".
I hope the CCC rotates among other German cities in the future, so with the excuse of the CCC we could also enjoy other beautiful cities in Germany :-)
It's less of a miracle and more like "larger OoO window, K done"
As a conservative, your story does not obligate me to ensure other's right to read
Your suggestion is that if your employer tries to pull this unethical behavior against you, is that you should lie, run, hide, and sacrifice your own personal relationships? There are better ways of dealing with this than acting like what you did was criminal and laying low for a year until it blows over.
I'm not sure I understand the appeal of Alexa or Alexa Calling, is there such a market for people taking calls from a speaker phone? When do people not just have their phone on them?

Is there proof that people are using Alexa for more than just showing their friends? I know this is an anecdote, but I know 3 people with Alexas and all 3 have them collecting dust. I just think in a way this new tech is largely hype. Microsoft released numbers on Cortana use and it appeared good...but how much of that was actually voice? Same with Siri, and Google Now.

The voice tech I see getting the most adoption right now (again an anecdote) is people controlling their TVs with their voices. Beit Cortana on Xbox, FireTV or Comcast's voice remote. I don't see much evidence in my own life of people using assistants like Alexa that only rely on voice. I see people showing them off to their friends and then forgetting they exist. In a way I would argue that Alexa if the digital assistants "Kinect moment."
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Did not register as condescension to me
If previously aware, shouldn't they have been even more prepared to stop the attack then?
contract negotiation requires human interaction. the "redline the clauses that are unacceptable to you" statement should be treated as non-literal. you don't literally resubmit a document with struck text. you get on the phone and talk to the hiring manager.
What about when exchanges pay out rebates to HFT firms for enhancing liquidity?
My understanding is that the wake caused by the A380 requires that additional buffer space be allocated in the landing/takeoff sequence, so this advantage really doesn't exist.
Interesting. The traditional problem in this space is that the source code is lost or otherwise not available. It is not clear that some encrypted source analog to encrypted verilog would be more available.
I have always refused to sign these. I've been presented with five in my life and in every case they either remove them, or in one case they added an addendum to nullify it.

In most contracts that are for companies that are across states, you'll see this clause marked with a "Not applicable in California."
I agree. This is aimed at people who:

- Are fairly new to the industry or are otherwise trying to act in a buyer's market for labor,

- Are being offered market-rate or lower with no extra incentives, and

- Have a potential employer trying to foist a noncompete on them for no particular business reason.

Understand the employer's business model and whether noncompete will be a sticking point for them. If it is, then the situation is very different, and you should be asking for lots of money rather than the clause's removal.
Ah, thanks, I didn't realize that the Byzantine generals problem wasn't just a synonym for the two generals problem.
They reward you by charging the merchant more. You realise that right?
By 'behavior' I mean two things:

(1) contractual behavior (what you want/expect) can be marked up in comments that generate docs but are also readable inline in the code.

And (2) actual behavior in the wild from monitoring, tracebacks, profiling. Would be cool if IDEs could drop that next to a function so I can ask 'is this slow', 'does this ever get called'.

Re: configuration I'm saying it's not always clear what a config setting does, and esp. how related config settings combine. Having standard types for configuration would let us generate docs for which part of the program are affected by a config setting; at least provide a starting point for understanding the flag's behavior.
This implicitly describes the value HFT contributes to the market, vis a vis liquidity enhancement.
Well not just unenforceable, but they are specifically prohibited by law there.
As an American, I'm routinely disappointed every time they announce "healthcare reform" and this issue isn't even part the conversation. Both major parties have failed on this.
Friends and social events, like people have been doing for centuries. There's nothing special or different about programmers with regards to dating. It might not be easy to find a partner, but it happens.

Note that I know a handful of happy marriages that began with online dating, and there are some interesting apps like Bumble that try to shake up the online dating paradigm.

Also you might wanna consider moving to NYC. Lots of single women here apparently!
Your comment assumes that Trump/Brexit/Le Pen voters are trying to "do something" with their votes. What if they're just trying to do as much damage as possible, knowing the system has it out for them?
Not to be pedantic (It's an unfortunate consequence of nuance), but just so you know, there is no country called "America." We have north, central, and south American continents with many countries; the U.S is one country in North America.
Do you know what company it is?
I forgot that « sell personal interest profiles to retailers » line was there. As a futurologist he's not bad at all.
First off, noncompete agreements and nondisclosure agreements are separate things. I don't see anyone here arguing that an employer's proprietary IP does not deserve protection.

Secondly, while there do exist well-compensated noncompetes for executives and other high-value employees -- and I don't think anyone here is arguing against those either -- the vast majority are not compensated at all, except that the employee gets the job in the first place.
Piketty adresses concentration of wealth due to aging, inheritance, etc..., and is a proponent of estate and wealth taxes.

And the solutions are simple, just uncomfortable for those who aren't poor.
NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) have a web site about this case: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/gaten-i-isdalen-1.13182053 (English version: https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/xl/the-isdalen-mystery-1.13249...).

There are a few other mysterious cases of unidentified people, the most famous of which is the Somerton Man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case) (warning: contains mortuary photograph).

There's also Peter Bergmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergmann_Case) (warning: contains mortuary photograph) and Lyle Stevik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Stevik).

Two recent British cases have been solved, Emmanuel Caillet (https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2002/jan/05/weekend7...) and David Lytton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lytton).
Don't write it off.

1. They say the plane may have been "10 years too early"

2. It will get more fuel efficient engines.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&prev...
> What they are doing (not what they are saying) is that they are trying to figure out how to hug the blockchain technology to death.

That's probably giving them too much credit for awareness of what they're trying to do. What I suspect they're doing is trying to get a handle on the hype about the glories of immutable, cryptographically secure storage technologies promised by blockchain, having conversations with blockchain startups consisting mostly of mutual misunderstanding and then hiring IBM or Accenture because they say "blockchain" a couple of times at the beginning of their presentation and then spend the rest of their time talking the bank's language and proposing to solve problems they already know banks actually have (not using a blockchain) in ways which don't create bigger theoretical problems.

[yeah, the people who definitely are doing the hugging to death are the mainstream IT consultancies that know that "blockchain" is the new "cloud" for sales hype to get people to rebuild a system that was only put in a couple of years ago. But I bet some of their middle management believes they're actually embracing the technology too]
> The only reason big companies offer health insurance is because it limits employees's freedom.

It's more complicated than that. Offering healthcare in large groups which are likely to be diverse agewise, has considerable benefits for insurers. If people have to privately insure there's a tendency to forgo insurance unless you're in higher risk of being sick. Which increases average costs. Hence the ACA non-insurance tax etc.

> Also if there was universal healthcare it would be easier to start small companies and attract employees

Yea, absolutely. I really miss that after having moved to the US from Germany.
Interesting, hadn't heard of that one.
Extinction, and failure, is the law. Survival, and success, is the exception. Just because dropout $billionaire is in charge of $unicorn, does not mean that all dropouts will be billionaires.

Bitcoin is no exception. It may survive, but the story about mobile phones (and any tech that succeeded) is irrelevant here. We can have this discussion when and if it is a consumer success.
You might want to have a look at [bos]

[bos]: http://erratique.ch/software/bos
the event isn't that impressive

"The Chinese government had hoped to assemble a weightier guest list to Mr Xi’s premier international forum. 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"

https://www.ft.com/content/f89060ac-36c7-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0f...
This was discussed in the book "Flashboys". The real challenge with high speed trading in the long distance communication between the stuff on Wall Street and the commodities action going on in Chicago. That long distance communication is what many of these towers are being used for.
Is colo done in adtech as well? I imagine with more and more sophisticated customer modeling engines, each millisecond counts, and the closer you are to the exchange the more of those 100 ms you can spend on your own IP and now data transmission.
Mhm! This is something any professional should learn to do early on. You can literally print a new document and show them the changes you've made, but you still have to interact with the person hiring you.
Ask your close friends, colleagues and relatives to introduce you to single eligible women.
You'll be surprised how effective this can be.
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I still recall way back when the A380 and 787 were announced, Airbus and Boeing were espousing and committing to very different ideas about how air travel would evolve. Airbus was betting the hub and spoke model would remain and become more dominant, and Boeing was betting on more point-to-point.
Anecdotally, Boeing got a little press hate as observers thought the 787 was just a weak response to the A380 announcement, more of a face-saver than a strong vision. Decades later it's looking like Boeing made the right call.
Why wouldn't they do it initially? It would take like 5 minutes to make it use a random string instead of a hardcoded one.
Do you know about hashlife?
Trying to get an employee to sign a non-compete in CA is not just a bad idea, it can cause problems for the employer.

http://www.socalinternetlawyer.com/non-compete-agreements-ca...
If this tickles your fancy, check out https://godbolt.org
This entire topic is very sensational. I'm still under the opinion that protecting consumer privacy belongs to the Federal Trade Commission. For example, there's nothing stopping Amazon from providing a service about what you bought based on your IP address to advertisers. This clearly falls outside the realm of the FCC.
Exactly right. Large companies are especially prone to this behavior. If you're coming in as a VP or Director its one thing, if you're coming in as a non-executive it is entirely something else.
I don't understand your Chinese government point. The post never said anything about China. And the only thing about the NSA was that it was an NSA-developed exploit. That doesn't make the NSA look friendly.
Where does all the hate come from?

S/he never said all implementations are slow, just that most are (which is true if you count all those toy implementations done by hackers who did it just for the learning experience; I alone contributed two).

Your "obvious use case" is not obvious to me. Nor are the foundations of your argument, that oversight and regulation drags viable banks down so much they need blockchain support to "save money". As you pointed out later in this thread, they are decades behind anyway.

OP's point is that s/he does not see the same traction other (failed) technologies had. I agree. You disagree. So we agree to disagree. But that does make the OP's opinion or your arguments any more/less valid.
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I'm pretty sure that the law in the US and NY says that if someone has done work for you, you need to give them the wages they've earned, and whether or not they have a bank account is irrelevant. Not paying someone for work they've done is wage theft, which is a crime.
Don't know about Sweden, but in several countries / states non-competes and non-poaching/solicitation (clients, colleagues) clauses are treated quite differently.
The place is not the filter, you are the filter.

You can meet someone anywhere, but you have to converse with them to see if you are a fit (both single, similar education etc).

At most, you could wear a t-shirt to signal what kinds of things you like. (Avoid Big Bang Theory).
Not a lawyer, but the ones I have spoken to here in SC have told me that's how it worked.
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Meanwhile I'm trying to find a way to remove the hard lock on CPU and RAM frequencies (extreme CPUs can't be overclocked, RAM is locked at 1333 MHz) :)

Looks like it can be done through Management Engine, which has access to everything apparently.

Only success so far is unlocking BCLK, but the overclock is small and unstable that way.

Another roadblock was the read only lock, which can fortunately be bypassed on POST on xx67/77 chipsets.
No, Skylake is not a RISC internally. Find something from the Intel Optimization Manual or their patents saying that. I been over this already. μops are hundreds of bits wide. Ain't nothing reduced about that.

Read up on horizontal microprogramming. A RISC ISA is an encoding with an opcode. A μop is really just a long set of fields with some bits clocking some FUs on and others off. There is no decoding; there is no opcode.
HFT does not constitute front running in itself, it's just the simplest example of a HFT strategy that screws the market. I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

So, since you seem to think I'm just a BSer, here goes what I saw:

A trader is looking to buy X futures at a certain price P. There is nothing happening on that market, the order book has been stable for minutes. The trader clicks to buy the futures at market price (which the trader assume is P). Immediately, the price goes up by 1 tick (P+dP), and the trader gets filled at P+dP. Immediately after that, the price goes back down to P. The whole thing last ed 1 ms. What happened is that the order got sent to multiple exchanges at the same time. And on it arrived first on an exchange where it has not been executed. But HFT traders saw the change in the order book on that exchange and "front ran" the order to all the other exchanges, buying everything lying around at P to make the price go up by dP, and selling to the trader at P+dP.

So that is annoying (and illegal).

Strategies used by HFT are usually legal, but all tend to use the same mechanism:
- look at what's happening with the price / order book
- guess what kind of operations are happening
- execute operations that benefit from the operations that should happen afterwards.
So if his argument is that geeks in the corporate trenches aren't using it to quietly get their jobs done without involving management, I'd say the reason is that if you're just doing internal work, you're better off using a database.

Blockchains are useful for reducing the overhead due to lack of trust when you're working with other companies. You can't really make that happen without management on both sides getting involved. There's no way a back office geek working on his own can make complicated auditing and settlement procedures go away, and that's the sort of thing where blockchains help.

(And of course not every new technology gets adopted first by corporate geeks; iPhone apps are one example of consumers taking the lead.)