skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The futures market for anything (including FX) is a convenient way to get risk without doing daily settlements.

You know what the cost of carry is up to the futures expiry date, so you use that (non arbitrage) to set the adjustment for the futures price.

So then when you trade the future, you're not in need of settling some item (currency, bonds, cows) against some payment each day.

Currencies are indeed available each day, and are easily settled each day, but there's a number of reasons why you might want the future:

- If you settle each day, your account PnL depends on interest payments. With futures, it's just the difference between the prices traded. So easier to account for.

- Futures tend to be cheap to trade. Depends on your agreements. You have to pay interest on one side and receive it on the other side if you settle currency. And guess what, your prime broker gives you a crap rate on both!
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I worry how that wording will work for security researchers exposing badly implemented roll your own encryption systems.

Or opensource client applications for proprietary messaging systems, though those get rarer these days.
xterm and Konsole allow to display images in the terminal. To check it out, install w3m with the w3m-img patch (in Debian, the "w3m-img" package; in Arch Linux, the "w3m" and "imlib2" packages) and open a webpage that contains plain <img src="..." /> tags.

Example screenshot from Konsole: https://imgur.com/a/D98Kl (showing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/xterm)

The rendering is really buggy. Images glitch away all the time, possibly until w3m issues a redraw event, but it kinda sorta works.

Some day, I'll have to dig into either the w3m source or the Konsole source and figure out which ANSI escapes are being used for that. (If someone has a link to a spec or sth, that'd be much appreciated.)
Leavers seemed to fall into one of two camps, one was primarily concerned with high levels of immigration, the other talked about freedom from EU bureaucracy.

The agitators mostly seemed to come from the second group but were happy enough to stoke the fears of the first.

Neither group appeared to have any coherent arguments to me.
see vimfx or vimium

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/vimfx/
My opinion as someone who wished to remain in the EU despite its (many) problems is that those who voted to leave based on a wish to preserve sovereignty, freedom and democracy were woefully misinformed and perhaps even deliberately led astray by demagogues and fascists.

But then again they might say the same about my wish to remain part of the union.

I value effective regulation, worker protections, considerations of civil liberties and democracy and I made a choice to vote remain in the EU knowing full well that it is far from perfect.

I trust the EU to act in my interests a hell of a lot more than my own country's shit-show of career-politician Eton schoolboys, unelected Lords and sycophantic royalists embodying the very notion of hereditary privilege.
Given that the next sentence is about "Member States", I think the sentence before it is as well—it's the member state['s government, or any contractor acting on its behalf] who is "prohibited" here from "reverse engineering or monitoring" encrypted communications.

In other words, this would constitute a ban on domestic SIGINT operations ala PRISM.
Don't you mean your Brexit plan? I'll show myself out...
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Kale drone delivery.
Law of leaky abstractions, though.
By the time the lobbyists and policy launderers have got to it, it'll be "you shall not remove DRM, and everything else must have a back door".
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Those who downvoted should read the history of Nestle and see that it is almost as poisonous to society as Monsanto/Bayer.
I've build http://mockrest.com/ last week and even did a Show HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14537247.

I've built many things before but why am I proud of this one specifically? Basically because I've built it with no expectations what-so-ever if this thing will ever be needed by someone else but me. Also, I've built it fast (less than 1 week), polished it a bit, and released it as soon as it was working ok-ish..

And why am I proud of being able to build it although it is not complete? Because I used to deal with perfection for so long that I had to force myself to release anything at all. In fact, it used to be very hard for me to even start doing anything for myself, as I would have analysis-paralysis. For quite some time I had to force myself to think "when good is good enough", read a lot of things about that subject, read other people opinions on these things, etc. etc. etc. After figthing with my own perfectionism, it seems that I finally can do things having lower expectations.. That's why I'm proud..
DMCA applies to first parties and to anything which could be defined as "encryption".

This should apply to state-of-the-art encryption and only to third parties.
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My next plan is extending Lax with a basic set of latex structures and integrating with vy. (This was one of the goals behind Lax)

https://github.com/iogf/vy

I believe some other editors like emacs/vim could integrate with it so people could easily ease the effort for writing some latex structures.
This is just a proposal, from the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs.

It's not a law, and (unfortunately) I can't imagine the proposal will get passed in it's current form.
It provides a great way to explore different areas of math and cs.
An Ethereum smart contract can be automatically executed, with no party, including no government, being able to stop that execution. The weaknesses you noted are serious and limiting, but that doesn't mean an automatically executable contract has no value.
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It heavily improves your raw problem solving skills.
I used to feel the same as you. But now we have Google to learn about other cultures. I'm tired of strangers trying to have a conversation with me solely because of the color of my skin. That's why I take offense.
Can you give an actual example where someone in authority said they would or could not follow up a lead into a terrorist plot because it would be racist to do that?
In fact, German parliament will be voting this week (at practically the last opportunity before the forthcoming election in September) to extend the usage of the Bundestrojaner (federal Trojan horse) from the terrorist threats that it was supposed to combat to all kinds of mundane offenses (e.g. drug abuse).

Source (German): https://netzpolitik.org/2017/staatstrojaner-bundestag-beschl...

I expect that the law will be shot down by the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Germany's Supreme Court), but it will be a few years until that happens because these processes take time.
I read your post. You clearly brought in turing completeness to try and support your argument. Your other points I've addressed, think we're done here.
Rice-lands are traditionally in the Wu language region, also known as Jiangnan. That is why the Grand Canal was built - move rice to the north. Traditionally, gaining control of the country is all about capturing the Central Plain known as Zhongyuan, sadly it has no overlap with your beloved rice land.
Over 24h now for me.
To add to other answers, the european parliament is composed of deputies elected directly by european citizens, so it doesn't represent european governments; the latter are represented in the european council, composed of the different heads of state. I don't know what is the council position on this one but I expect it to be on the opposite side.
I remember writing Mandelbrot on C64 and Amigas. Depending on depth you could wait some time. So it often was overnight, with a pleasunt suprise the next morning (or some ugly looking picture)
European MEPs want to ban states from backdooring encryption
The mistakes seen by the author aren't bugs. They're just less performant algorithmic choices.

One charge not leveled at D's GC is bugginess. The GC has proven to be pretty robust.
As a contributor to html5ever, it isn't made to parse the same way Firefox does, just so that it parses HTML5 correctly. Hopefully, the two are the same, but in practice some Firefox parser errors/behaviors won't be reproduced.
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I wrote a slack bot our team uses pretty frequently and I'm wondering if it's worth the hassle building a site and making it available for multiple users etc. I'd like to charge a few bucks annually, not much, just enough to cover hosting. So that includes setting up payment processing. I'm just curious if anyone has done this, has it been worth while?
No, it's an "intelligence" failure, and a direct result of austerity cuts.
There is a difference. When gambling on economic markets, there is no equivalent of 'the house always wins'.
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> It's true though that Rust crate culture leans much more to MIT.

This is a fairly worrying trend I've noticed in new languages. In general it seems that they are systematically creating ecosystems where copyleft is much less modularised than in other (older) languages.

For example, in Go and Rust, LGPL is effectively as strong as GPL because it's non-trivial to make packages/crates replaceable for an end-user with a binary. This results in a general distaste towards LGPL even though it's objectively _the language's fault_ that LGPL isn't as friendly as it is in C. This causes everyone to license things as Apache or MIT (or _maybe_ MPLv2) and as a result the ecosystem of copylefted software is reduced.
I would be afraid of legal implications. It's one thing to block ads on web, where every element is basically a stand alone datafile and it's interpretation is by design the matter of client.
But in podcast, you are essentially taking someone's copyrighted audio file, modifying it and redistributing the modified version without consent of the original producer. Or am I missing something?
Damn it! I dont know. recently they had a few good ideas there were discussed and some even implemented! Our system definitely is broken... but in a good way?
Sure, but at least these arbitrary best practices are enforced at a framework level. I can't not adhere to the GraphQL way of doing things!
Not terrorism, but race was one small factor that caused the Rotherham child sexual exploitation rings to not be rigorously investigated.

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

This was a long running set of crimes that had severe impact on the victims, and there were very many victims.

Investigating people before they are terrorists is complicated by things like human rights. But raping children is always, unambiguously, wrong.
Of course he can't. Note the use of quotes around racist, smacks of "I'm not racist but" mindset IMO.
Oops. I didn't know that. Thanks.
I understand the terminology difference of forwards and futures, what I was asking about was when does a deal become a forward? The standard "I'll agree to buy oil from you at this price next year" is obviously a forward, but a deal where there may be no particular timeline or even a promise of one seems to be more hazy.
The context seems to be communications between citizens, not media playback.
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Worst customer service I've ever encountered, avoid at all costs.
I don't know - the wood paneling seems a bit dated.

I'd happily pay for a slick PC case though, that looked as good as a PS4/xbone and could fit a GTX 1080.
Perhaps I have misinterpreted you or read too much into what you said. I'm sorry if my response came across as a personal attack.

All these threads about interviewing over the years have definitely left me with a bitter taste, mainly due to all the people who think they're clever and have figured out the most important thing, that one thing by which all applicants' worth can be tested.. if they just know about this one little thing. And in doing so, they effectively trivialize the software industry as a whole, failing to realize just how wide and deep it is, completely oblivious to how different developers with up to two decades of experience even in the same subfield may have walked rather different yet fruitful paths.

Again, I'm sorry.
Perhaps a "more modern" voting system is one where you have only one option.

Such systems were "progressive" back in 1980's, remember.
- "Almost all life on earth is based on DNA being copied, or replicated" - Can anyone tell me what they are referring to here? (life on earth that isn't based on DNA)
I genuinely wonder what the result would have been if the options were 1: Explicit no-opinion, 2: EEA membership. 3: Complete exit, WTO rules. 4: Status quo. 5: Even greater EU federalism.

I imagine the 3rd option (UKIP's favourite) would be the least popular and the EEA option "soft brexit" as the winner - which I feel better reflects voter sentiment... and voter ignorance: as EEA members still pay money to Brussels and are subject to regulation on goods and immigration. At least it would have made it clear to everyone in Whitehall that "hard brexit" was/is unconscienceable.
Also, I've read that all(?) cats meow as kittens but wild cats lose the habit as they mature whereas domestic cats retain it and that they don't meow to each other but only to humans.
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Those on the right in the UK see the EU as a fundamentally a socialist enterprise as the EU has views on workers rights and human rights.

Those on the (far) left in the UK see the EU as a fundamentally a capitalist enterprise as it is about free trade and ensuring supplies of cheap labour to keep wages depressed.
RNA I believe. ( Which I only existed at one time, in theory? Or some people think viruses count as life )
As someone who worked in Kitchens/Hotels/Restaurants from about the age of 14 to my mid 20s - I have never not been able to find people hiring KPs etc in an area. Low skill low paid work always seemed to be available.

Note, I was usually in _relatively_ affluent parts (the south) of the country. However after that I've always felt that should things go tits up I could always go back to 50+ hours a week on min wage...

Worth noting, even if I could do that I sure as hell wouldn't have the motivation to job hunt in my downtime.
> Fairly sure most of us only send the B Team to the EU parliament. E.g retired national politicians, or people who couldn't get elected for national parliaments.

I wouldn't call 'retired national politicians' the 'B' team, those are more likely the 'A' team, no longer worried about their career they are much freer to operate than their national counterparts, besides that they have lots of experience.

A Dutch example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelie_Kroes
FreeNAS has supported zfs encryption for a long while, unless I misunderstand you. Unless its not actually zfs encryption but something else?
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Thanks for posting this, it's my first time seeing it.

What a flipping brilliant idea.
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Quite the opposite actually.

The UK is a mixed economy, we have both Capitalism and Socialism and we like it - our safety-net welfare state and the NHS save lives everyday.

EU membership is a shield for former soviet satellite states to join the West and escape Russian influence.

The main leave "argument" was £350,000,000 was being given to the EU and could save the beloved NHS - this turned out to be a downright lie.

Many of the other popular arguments were equally false and fearmongery about out of control EUrocrats legislating on the curvature of bannanas and attacks on the British sausage and that farmers would be better off outside the common market - all very jingoistic.

It has emerged that there was a lot of carefully crafted individually targeted Facebook adverts that played on voters fears derived from personal data held outside the UK (and outside UK data laws), sadly these went undocumented so we may never know the extent of the falsehoods or their level of influence.

The UK electoral commission has expressed concern over this type of campaigning as no-one knows what is being promised or how much was spent on it.

There has been an effort to try to document these dark ads for the recent election where they seem to have been much less effective.

Many Brits feel conned as the referendum was pitched as being only advisory but is now being taken as iron-clad and a 4% majority of those who offered an opinion is very little mandate to enact such major constitutional change.

As the realities for science funding, farming subsidies have kicked polls are reporting many Brexiters have changed their tune. Goldman Sax's relocation to Europe is a bellweather for the realities for the financial industry which is close enough to Tory hearts that one hopes they'll snap out of their dreams of Empire and Commonwealth.

Hopefully the staggering level of incompetence so far demonstrated by David Davis' negotiating team will be the rope that hangs them and we'll get a second real referendum.

The alternative Red White and Blue Hard Brexit promised by Teresa May is not good for anyone in the UK unless they are shorting the pound.
And I expected their project logo to be more akin to e.g. [1].

[1] http://d31f1lobboyy59.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014...
Interestingly, the article suggested that Amazon, in being both the distributor and the cloud provider, may be able to increase their advantage by exploiting information they hold on competitors.
> takes a few mins at most to setup

Now there's hyperbole.

Let's be honest. Unless you do it for a living, at best it takes a few hours to set up boilerplate for any modern js project today.

And let's also be honest that es6 is a must today and script tags are not an option until browser es6 support is ubiquitous.

Last project I set up, grunt and browserify were the thing. You were an idiot if you weren't using them. Apparently now it's webpack and gulp. In another year it'll be some other crap. The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting there is one. I'm not sure labeling comments that highlight the problem 'hyperbole' is constructive in any way.
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>The problem is how to reach consensus. Who decides which intermediaries have the correct view of asset prices? Ultimately, these parties will be the ones who decide the profits and losses of the participants. How is that an improvement over existing systems?

You could use credible parties like Yahoo Finance as the intermediary. Town Crier[1] could be used to provide a verifiable Yahoo Finance lookup, that could then be plugged into the smart contract.

[1] http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/06/15/town-crier/
Yanis Varoufakis describes the structure of the EU as "We the governments" rather than "We the people".
> The plugin interface is a public interface too, right?

It didn't say 'plugin interface'. It said 'internal changes' that could affect some plugins. The way I read that is some plugins could be relying on internals (that they technically shouldn't, they may have good reason ofc).
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There's a belief that legislators elected as MEPs are not particularly high quality, so it's not a good idea to give them too much power. OTOH it's hard to convince ambitious talented people to run for a job with little power, so there's a catch-22.

It's also a way around the democratic deficit, though in reality the deficit is in government to government horse trading with plausible deniability ("the EU made us do it!"), not anonymous bureaucracy.
Clearly they had the intelligence information, so it's not an intelligence failure.

It was lack of authorisation to act, and even that does not come from any "austerity cuts". It comes from the difficult balance of citizen's rights to "freedom of expression" and "privacy" and "right to family life" and so on.

The silly part is simply that foreign citizens can preach violence but they can't be deported.
> I don't believe in free will, but I believe that there will always be the illusion because the computing needed to know anything before it happens is far too much, and if you knew, it would add another layer of things you'd need to compute, meaning you still wouldn't know your choice ahead of time.

Interesting. I arrived at the same conclusion for myself, but used it as justification that I, basically, "might as well believe in free will". Sort of like a duck typing approach: If it walks like free will and talks like free will, I can just act as if it's free will.
get the "self-destructing cookies" plugin.
it is also one of the best mechanisms to protect your privacy
"But incidentally, I love ChromeOS on ARM. Very energy-efficient, there are some solid models in that rare and coveted 10-11.6" size range,..."

Keyboards that don't bend? What makes do you recommend?
Around NZ$130/month for us, in Auckland. Four bedroom house, but it was built to 2015 code so it’s well insulated and double glazed, ambient inside is about 16C in the middle of winter, so it’s cheap to heat.

Couldn’t imagine living in one of the leaky sheds built before modern regs...
So end to end encryption of email within the EU is going to become common? Facebook messages? Sure.

Is there anybody here who actually believes that 1, this will happen, and 2, will be effective?
Certainly just the simple ability to see which accounts are scaling up or down and spending metrics can provide a huge business edge right?
"see, we have ways to change things for the better, too!" There were "changes" in your old USSR days, but was there anything like having a Communist party actively supporting capitalism? In China, it is called the 1978 reform. If you call this "controlled outlets", well, that is gotta to be a pretty big one.
> A lack of free will is an inability to exert agency through choosing.

Not at all. A computer program can easily do such things as choose items from a list, and thus create the appearance of agency to an outside observer. But that doesn't mean that it exhibits free will.
> People in the UK are infuriatingly trusting of their rulers.

No, just the readers of the reactionary black-top press.

What's infuriating is erosion of civil liberties that has happened under both Labour and Conservative governments in the past 30+ years - I blame it on the fundamental design of the office of the Home Secretary - whose job-description is seemingly to always put matters of national security (and the reactionaries' opinions...) above such trivial concerns as privacy or liberty. Fortunately this trend can be reversed if an equivalent opposing office, a hypothetical "Secretary of Sensibleness", existed with veto rights over the Home Secretary.

I thought we came close with the new Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport, but it seems like a holding position for unwanted or up-and-coming MPs than a position of any consequence (London Olympics notwithstanding).
Neelie isn't an MEP. MEPs don't have much power, so ambitious people aren't interested, so the B team gets sent, and then nobody wants to give them much more responsibility.