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> a podcast I love is Planet Money, and they take the time to interview economists on both sides

Great tip. The solution to so many problems is to involve challenging opposing points of view.

There is a big problem with the left in America rejecting opposing points of view. "Safe space" and "shut it down" culture, etc. Mainstream media newsrooms packed with only liberal reporters, etc.

But unfortunately everyone gravitates to places of comfort around people with like-minded views, because its too difficult to constantly be questioning your beliefs or challenging someone else.

Good examples are Fox News' Hannity and Colmes and CNN's Crossfire. Both shuttered, and just ended up with replacement shows with one point of view.

I find that more and more Trump people can make the arguments of left-wing people, but the inverse is not true.
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This is exciting. The first MMORPG is back online for everybody to explore! Wonder what people will discover and learn in this environment?
One day, someone said "isn't this just Yahoo again?"

Rephrased:

Isn't Gigster a seemingly more efficient way to build software?
Why aren't there more companies like Gigster? Competitors to Gigster?

There should be. It is a more efficient way to build software. The market will reward Gigster, MoonlightWork, and Turtle.
If you sliced a tesseract then presumably you'd encase it in the knife and a square, with no depth (the depth is in the 4th dimension that we're not experiencing), would appear?

Hypercubes have always been a difficult one for me to intuit, basically I have no 4th dimensional intuition. When I think of a 4D hypersphere all I can get is a simple sphere. I don't have any intuition as to whether that's wrong, it seems in a way it should be a sphere with infinite spheres on it's surface - from analogy with the tesseract - but from analogy of constructing a sphere from a circle it should be a case of rotating the sphere around itself perpendicular to the extra dimension?
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No absolutely, don't apologise - I get where you're coming from, sometimes the stuff that gets posted isn't necessarily current or even particularly important, but its regularly /interesting/.

I like to think of it as being in a bar with a whole bunch of super smart, interesting people. Sometimes I've got nothing to add or I simply don't get it, but its consistently interesting, and occasionally unexpected and brilliant.

Heck, there was an article about butterflies the other day, it was pretty damn good, and something I'd never have read otherwise. For me at least that is HN - nerdy stuff with occasional flashes of brilliance.
> Also, it's not really C++, it's a pretty serious subset (lacking templates, multiple inheritance, exceptions, reflection, funky new casts [reinterpret_cast, static_cast, dynamic_cast, const_cast], and even namespaces(!)).

Oh come on. Its not like you see C99 dynamic arrays used very much in Kernel mode.

That's the joy of programming languages. Good programmers use the good parts and ignore the bad parts. C++ has a lot of bad parts (with regards to kernel programming. Such as how most of the STL automatically reallocates memory on its own whims).

So, you ignore the parts that don't work for your task, and the work with the parts that are useful. Very few people have good uses of multiple inheritance anyway.

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> Also, it's not really C++, it's a pretty serious subset (lacking templates, multiple inheritance, exceptions, reflection, funky new casts [reinterpret_cast, static_cast, dynamic_cast, const_cast], and even namespaces(!)).

BTW: The -kernel flag in Visual Studio only disables:

* Dynamic Casts (Reflection/RTTI is disabled), Exceptions, and the DEFAULT New / Delete.

Templates, Static_cast / Const_cast and all that good stuff are still available.

This is a similar "subset" of C++ that has been chosen for GCC development: https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/
A favorite novel of mine actually! Hard to believe that it was written in the 1800s, yet still Abbott understood the 4th dimension better than most people today.
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Thanks - exactly, but the idea was that something like that would get (re)implemented in C++ since "Sublime is fast and never makes me wait".
Even SHA-224 has it's own IV, while it's internals are exactly the same as SHA-256
All those stats and one lingering question: whats the Weissman Score?
> I think reminding yourself to be grateful for things is important, but should be separated from trying to find happiness.

Hmm... I think if you are finding things to be grateful for, you really are on your way to happiness. Maybe really, the search for happiness is actually the problem. I don't know what your search for happiness looks like, I know what mine looks like. I imagine that i will be happy when X happens, or when life event Y or Z happens. Of course, it may be that none of X, Y, or Z happens, ever. Does that mean I can't be happy in my current or future circumstances? Nope.

I will also put it out there and say that comparing our lives to others on facebook or instagram, etc. is a recipe for disaster. Maybe their lives really are better than ours, maybe they are not. What we see there is a "photoshopped" version of their life, and that creates dissatisfaction with our own lives.

Put simply, I'm trying to both "have goals for the future, but be satisfied in today".
Oh, wow. But... the real question is how many bytes of data can I put in a tweet using this? :-)
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Since when did people start to label C implementation as "Unix shell"?
This is because they use the CuDNN LSTM kernel in CNTK and in TensorFlow they chose to not use the CuDNN LSTM kernel which might be a bit unfair because they could have used it. The same for Torch. See here for more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473234
I would say much of the negativity is because certain very large institutions have a huge incentive to not want bitcoin to "succeed" and would paint it in a negative light any way they could.
This is utterly the wrong way to learn finance for quantitative trading. That would be an unproductive use of time.

Read Options, Futures and Other Derivatives and Algorithmic Trading and DMA and you basically know everything you'll get from public sources that could be meaningful for trading.

If he knows how to code and is looking for "mathematics of finance" he should start with those, not the CFA.
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Would love feedback on this plan from anyone familiar with Racket!
Ditto, or even a Massage Therapist... I'm okay w/ bartering things I need/want for coding... I can then host the site for them -- to ensure continued 'benefits' and the 'value' of hosting / upkeep keeps them happy.
I thought the IRS decided bitcoin was property, not currency?
Anti-tourist movement in Barcelona is a minority, mainly from extreme-left parties and activists from Catalan nationalist parties. I live in Barcelona, and I'm ashamed of those xenophobic acts. My guess is that over 90% of Barcelona population don't endorse such xenophobic attitude.

Despite being affected personally, e.g. because of tourism flat rental makes generic rental to have huge price increases (15% year to year increase (!)), I'm not against tourism, because tourism also means less unemployment, and most people having a better situation. Also, having people from around the world willing to visit the city where I live is amazing, and I'm very proud of it. Being Spain still recovering from the long, huge, and terrible financial and housing bubble crisis since 2007, I'm terrified with those radicals blaming the tourists for a problem that should be fixed by local rulers.

In my opinion, the major of Barcelona city (not the province), Mrs Ada Colau (former radical-left activist) should put her efforts into increasing housing offer, so the demand-offer reaches a reasonable equilibrium (e.g. fiscal discounts for empty flats put in the rental market, fiscal discounts for building flats in former industrial places that are like ghost neighborhoods, etc.).

From my side, you're very welcome to visit Barcelona as tourist, as worker, or as whatever you want while you do more good than harm :-)
I'm not sure the OP was being patronizing.

One alternative to this program would be to buy each store a Fedex style van (or a few) and have a few dedicated drivers make deliveries all day. Once you think about that for a few minutes, you start to see all of the costs that they're offloading to employees. Not just insurance, but also vehicle maintenance, gas, etc.

I'm sure Walmart has done a ton of cost/benefit analysis and churned through a lot of data before deciding to offer a program like this, and the employees will almost certainly not get all the details.
Cool - we've been taking a very manual approach to optimize our process so far, and are finally just starting on a web app! We have a lot more work to do in automating the process and creating a great user experience. We're users of our own product too - I'm working 10 hours a week through Moonlight to afford rent.

Our mission is to help engineers earn what they want, and for some people - that means working more time for more money, but for others that means working just a few hours per week.

I see that Turtle focuses more on web development. I think this is a good way to go about it - but for Moonlight specifically, I knew there was a problem when a friend of mine making $400K/year as a security researcher couldn't find a way to apply his skills in contract work. He wanted to travel and contract for a bit, and was having to look at webdev contracts at $50/hour. So, instead of focusing on building products for non-technical clients, we're focusing on more specialized tasks like dev-ops and algorithms for technical clients.
Do you guys turn away applicants? I applied a while ago and never heard back.
If someone writes this ...

> I haven't found many practical guides or tutorials of how to use C++ superiority and boost development process compared to conventional approach of using “C” programming language.

... and does not mention RAII in their quest to write such a guide, they have seriously failed at their goal.
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There's always an opportunity to do something for someone else, and to reflect on your skillfulness and goodness. The Buddhist term for "positive things and happy memories" is merit[0]. The story of Angulimala is a good example[1]. He had killed around a hundred people, and the world was out looking for vengeance on him. Having repudiated violence and ordained as a Buddhist monk, he gave comfort to a pregnant woman:

"Sister, since I was born in the noble birth, I do not recall intentionally
killing a living being. Through this may there be wellbeing for you,
wellbeing for your fetus." And there was wellbeing for the woman, wellbeing
for her fetus.

It is not a coincidence that immediately after this the sutta recounts his enlightenment. That was all the merit he needed:

Then Ven. Angulimala, dwelling alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute,
in no long time reached & remained in the supreme goal of the holy life for
which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing &
realizing it for himself in the here & now. He knew: "Birth is ended, the
holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for the sake of
this world." And thus Ven. Angulimala became another one of the arahants.

Shortly after that, his past caught up with him and he was stoned, but his training kicked in:

Ven. Angulimala — his head broken open and dripping with blood, his bowl
broken, and his outer robe ripped to shreds — went to the Blessed One. The
Blessed One saw him coming from afar and on seeing him said to him: "Bear
with it, brahman! Bear with it! The fruit of the kamma that would have
burned you in hell for many years, many hundreds of years, many thousands of
years, you are now experiencing in the here-&-now!"

Then Ven. Angulimala, having gone alone into seclusion, experienced the
bliss of release.

As the footnote to this says, this is an example of having made so much merit that it swamps any suffering which might arise[2].

[0] http://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html#Merit

[1] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.086.than.html

[2] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.099.tha...
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Web dev? Affiliate links.

Consider a consumer item you are passionate about. Walk through the typical shopping process, either as a newb or as an enthusiast. Identify all the pain points, every bit of friction. Consider everything you've listed as an embarrassment that you will personally make right. Build the smoothest, fastest, most respectful experience possible. Compile lots of information too - your goal is to become the best resource on the internet. Put the user first at all times.
And when appropriate add affiliate links. (In my case only 27% of URLs are affiliated.)

Why is respecting the user the #1 priority? Because you do not want to look like an affiliate content mill! Go read the blogs that teach you how to affiliate^W build dark patterns and do the opposite of what they suggest.

Of course even if you are unquestionably the best resource on the internet, some communities will still tar and feather you for having affiliate links. I was very lucky to find a great and supportive community.
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It's pretty fun to use in React/React Native. Can't talk about Flow since I haven't tried it, but TypeScript definitely beats out plain JavaScript. What I like best is that it doesn't forces you to write your code differently than you would in JavaScript, it simply augments it with type information.
I mean, sure, it's nice to have the options documented in a man page. But most of the GNU projects have exactly this in addition to the full docs in info pages, multi-page HTML, and single-page HTML available for online or offline browsing.

I think historically, there were some bad man pages for GNU projects which just pointed to info, but I haven't seen that happen recently.
> Why are you assuming that they won't have an insurance policy for such deliveries or pay for mileage like every other company?

The fact that they're piggy backing on employees going home, regardless of extra pay, tells me that they're doing this on the cheap. If this part is on the cheap, there's no reason to assume that the rest isn't.

Win win!
256 byte packet and a 192 bit authentication hash, why use fast flux dns to run C&C on your botnet when you can just make them twitter followers.

EDIT: And in case that isn't clear. Imagine you have a botnet, and all of the individual members create a twitter account. All of the twitter botnet accounts follow the 'master'. Who can tweet a command (and corresponding authentication key) to the botnet to say "follow chuck and do up to n things for him, here is his public key". Now Chuck suddenly has all these followers and when the time is right he tweets out his command, "ddos my greatest enemy" and adds his 'proof'. Off they go and blast his enemy. If he was only allotted one command then they all un-follow him.

Basically its social media for botnets.
I feel like your second point was a missed educational opportunity for users. Ad views are worth a lot more to advertisers (and consequently, publishers) than what you are willing to pay - 'free content' isn't free and if you as a user aren't willing to pay for it then it's probably not fair to complain about the ads. The thing that upsets me is when I am willing to pay for content (Washington Post, The Economist, FT, etc.) and I still get served ads.

Online advertising reminds me of airline travel in the sense that people complain about the low quality service but are only willing to purchase the cheapest flights. The industry has shifted to accomodate what people actually want, not what they say they want.
Right, and Steve Jobs is going to pay himself $1
"This isn't just a problem in open source. It is a huge problem in corporate internal software too."

Is this partly due to business practices and emphasis on agility? Where everyone is afraid of investing time documenting systems that are possibly (even though often times unlikely) to change in the near future and a fear of sinking resources into increasing efforts (original documenting effort + modifying documentation effort in future if changes occur)?

On top of the initial investment in documenting up front, all too often when future changes come about the documentation is neglected (often due to pressure form the business, or forgetfulness) in the estimated amount of work to achieve a task. Incorrect documentation is often more costly than no documentation.
>2. We will not laugh at or make fun of a person's mistakes nor use sarcasm or putdowns.

I would have appreciated this as my public school experience was rife with negativity, sarcasm, snark, jeering, insulting, etc.

I'm not sure what causes such anti-social behavior but I dream of a day where all students can be kind, considerate, polite, and supportive of one another.
Just an fyi for my browser it looks kind of weird

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Crikey, I thought this was going to be a joke project, but it isn't. Is it..?

Either way, it's a neat piece of thinking.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2

"In March 2012, the standard was updated in FIPS PUB 180-4, adding the hash functions SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256, and describing a method for generating initial values for truncated versions of SHA-512. Additionally, a restriction on padding the input data prior to hash calculation was removed, allowing hash data to be calculated simultaneously with content generation, such as a real-time video or audio feed. Padding the final data block must still occur prior to hash output"

This sounds like more than just truncating SHA-2 512. Also, the various articles on stackexchange state that there is no way to truncate SHA-2 512 and conform to SHA-2 512/256.

Finally, https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/548.pdf sounds like they really wanted you to be able to distinguish SHA-512/256 from a truncated SHA-512:

"In order for users to be able to distinguish between a SHA-512 digest which has been truncated and a SHA512/256 digest, we also offer new initialization constants, analogous to those used in SHA-384."
In all of these cases, the bitcoin vendors did not register on FinCEN's website. Registering is simple but by doing so the person/company is required to check ID's of their customers and make sure there is no money laundering involved. Including filing reports with the gov't for any suspicious activity and large cash transactions amongst other things.
"See a need, fill a need" (Bigweld).
Algo trading typically utilises technical analysis which is basically patterns proven to repeat in markets for a variety of fundamental reasons, or fundamental analysis (e.g. algorithmically valuing and pricing options based on underlying fundamental data, sentiment analysis, etc.), and buying/shorting as appropriate. It is based on scientific methods: empirical evidence being used to validate hypothesis that produce results that can be shared and repeated by others.

Astrology is story-telling with no scientific grounding.
Gigster is building web-apps for non-technical clients. They have a ton of overhead, take a HUGE cut, and have to spend a lot of time and money on product management, project management, and design before it hits the engineer.

We're focusing more on microtasks for technical clients. Think - helping the CTO and in-house team gain momentum, rather than outsourcing.
Here's the job post: http://geostrategies.com/software-engineer-gis-developer/
I'm much more bothered by TS's lack of separate compilation (errors tend to cascade, but this is to be expected from a structural rather than nominal type system).

The killer app for type systems has always been code completion.
This is by far the best argument for decentralization of almost anything that is not meant to be public. You probably will lose some of it but at least you won't lose all of it.
Oh yes, I think it's charming how aesthetically picky he was about which cat pictures to use in his book. It's not enough for the science and mathematics behind the gigantic book to be ground breaking, revolutionary, earth shattering and astounding -- but also the leopard's smirk can't give readers the wrong impression.
The only thing you have available is having a good legal team, documentation and hope you have trustworthy employees. If an employee does do that, then it would be a criminal act, and any company that uses the illegally obtained information could also be legally prosecuted.

Many companies that have had an employee come to them with information obtained from another company report them due to liability reasons and have the FBI start an investigation. It is vary rare that a company would allow industrial espionage due to it being a felony.
> Nearly direct-access to the GPU

Not sure what you consider "near", but I certainly wouldn't consider even Direct3D 12 to be anywhere "near" direct access to the GPU. It doesn't expose the shader ISA, it doesn't expose the command stream format, it doesn't expose the register sets.

The user mode scheduler is not the system scheduler, thus my statement holds.
Weird - which browser? We're using Bulma/Flexbox, so I know that only the latest browsers will really support it.

Edit: I thought it was the double-scrollbar, but I now see that Log In is cut-off. We'll fix the responsiveness - thanks!
Well, you got me there so I gave you an upvote. Temporarily bartering labor for skills training is a complexity I hadn't accounted for.
This commenter comes into every single thread about trading and talks about buying data from ebay, then consistently demonstrates that he doesn't know the first thing about due diligence on financial data. Each time I try to ask him about his data quality or methodology at even a high level, he responds by accusing me of wanting to steal his work or stop the democratization of data.

I'm going to reiterate this right now: you are not going to find data valuable enough for trading insights on ebay. Go look at the prices of historical data for various time resolutions at TickData or CBOE Livevol and then ask yourself if cheap, competitive data on ebay is too good to be true.

If the data is competitive, it's expensive. If it's not competitive, you shouldn't be paying for it, especially not from ebay. The first time I read about him doing this I was puzzled, now I'm getting increasingly frustrated because it's blatantly false information.
And of those which ones had successful antitrust litigation against them? Just Standard Oil I believe.
The picture of what your friend ate for dinner sticks out as something that doesn't belong here. That actually _is_ a means of connecting directly with our friends/family. The other things you list are not. I'd still signup, even if I saw food pics occasionally.