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It's a difficult topic to debate the situation of the short history of a small place. Like any such contended area, they are subject of heavy contention of powerful nations with complicated historical and cultural traditions.

Although it's roughly the same that 1) British installs a governor; and 2) CCP installs a governor through superficial election. Nonetheless China is not a democratic country in western standard, despite itself claims to be people's democratic dictatorship [1].

On the other hand, people general fear that Hong Kong will be changed into more like mainland China, instead of continue the improvement.

I think the rich and powerful around the world, universally are conscious that any form of democracy is a camouflage, if they manage to indulge their people in superficial arguments, or simply be content with their lives.

From British's perspective, there is little motivation to give Hong Kong what's being enjoyed by a sovereign nation, because Hong Kong is a colonial entity. And people are nevertheless happy because they compare themselves with mainland China.

After that, British might be thinking to stir instability by allowing political reform; or they might be thinking now they are indifferent in maintaining their ruling, so they might just give what the people want. Either way, that causes inconvenience in CCP's ruling over Hong Kong.

Does it really matter? Not really. Once Hong Kong becomes economically inconsequential, no one really cares much.

For example, do we care Syria people being murdered by ISIS, which US and Russian and China and etc. are still fighting their own little conflicts and are not trying to resolve the root causes? Absolutely not. Or only in a degree that is less than how Trump steal Hilary's presidency. After all, Syria hardly affect how people live here in US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_People%27s_Democratic_D...
> that people are perfectly fine with Amazon being a conglomerate

What is this supposed to mean? Is there supposed to be something inherently not-fine with a conglomerate? If conglomerates survive because they're better able to deliver goods and services more efficiently then great.

As another comment pointed out[1], we are surrounded by conglomerates.[2] Other conglomerates that have delivered things people love include, but limited to, Toyota; Yamaha; Mitsubishi; Wesfarmers; 3M; Alhpabet; Honeywell; Berkshire Hathaway. The list is expansive.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14592612
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conglomerates
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(2) is exactly what RodericDay is lamenting.
I don't think it's necessarily planned, but used (by those it suits) and encouraged via second-order effects. Normally someone would step in, but terror can be used by politicians and suits media profits. Who else has a significant voice? I'd say celebrities, but how many of those play things carefully so as not to frighten sponsors?
Yeah, that too. Bad work ethic, or work ethic that isn't compatible with the system they're submerged in?

If you want to frame it in terms of choices, what is it about the modern work world that is so intolerable that a person would willingly choose poverty, homelessness, etc., over work?

If so many people are "bad," how can you say the system is good and it's the people...
But spying on other people is okay, simply because where they had the audacity to be born?

Nations are fictions and depriving rights to a group that you permit to others based on nationality is entirely unjust.

I blame the specific people who built these systems to collect and process data for the military.
I wonder how he'd feel after 450mg of cholesterol each day, too!

[1] http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/costco-breakfast-s...
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What are you setting up ZFS for?
(from the Yale note)

> switching costs are high

> Amazon’s platform lock-in

> users said they would be taking their business from Amazon and returning to Diapers.com—which, other users pointed out, was no longer possible

I have a hard time taking this seriously. "Lock-in" is just a sunk cost, it's more about the psychology of switching than an actual problem. If they went through all the pain of figuring out AWS's XML formats then they shouldn't have any trouble with another cloud service...
Good luck with this. I find GC programming really hard as any small mistake snowballs and becomes super hard to find during debugging.

Some of the mistakes seen by the author could just be the original programmers being tired of painful debugging.
Good luck making those ERC20 compliant.
The first paragraph of the article states:

Investors, we have been repeatedly told, want smaller, nimbler, more focused companies."

Who's we? If, by investors, they mean a fairly specific subset of investors, namely Venture Capitalists* and Angel Investors, then yes.

But otherwise, no. People aren't bailing out of established conglomerates. Not that I'm aware of.
> What does the existence of the futures market allow me to do that I can't already do in this scenario?

Leverage.

So I had a look at live data for an example. As of writing, 1GBP = 1.28 USD. Let's look at some example scenarios, assuming I believe 1 GBP will be worth 1.41 USD (+10%) in 3 months and want to make as much money as I can with a $100k investment.

- I buy USD from a regular bank or currency exchanger and wait 3 months. If the price goes up 10%, I make $10k. If the price goes down 10%, I lose $10k. If nothing happens, I lose nothing.

- I buy GBPUSD futures contracts. I need $7346.25 margin to open the contracts and $5877 to maintain them (per https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=marginnew&...) and I control 62500GBP ($80k) per contract. With $100k, I can buy 13 contracts and control $1.04M. If the price goes up 10%, I make $100k. If it goes down 10%, I lose $100k.

And then, for fun:

- I buy 86 options for a GBPUSD futures contract at a strike of $1.28 for $99k. If the price goes up 10%, I make $593k. If the price is at ~$1.30, I lose nothing. If the price is below $1.28, I lose $99k.

I'm no expert on futures however so there might be something wrong here, though the answer is definitely leverage.
Mostly what I'm hearing here is:

"You're using it wrong"

"You should start up a Hadoop cluster, create a table, load the CSV into that table, then export it as Parquet, and then load that into S3, so that Athena can scan it"

Wouldn't you be honestly just better off creating a table and loading the CSV into a columnar database directly, like on Amazon RDS (Even if it means you bring the server instance down after you're done)?
Why is the webpage 100x longer than the article?
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The first passage is a weird mixed metaphor. I think the part before the semicolon is relatively straightforward. The force of mind is a plant (though, who ever heard of a plant thriving in adverse soil but not in a prosperous flower bed?). The part after the semicolon refers to the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet, and now the mind is a person whose natural red-cheeked bravery and decisiveness have become pale because of the illness of money.

It is bad writing.
How about a service for muslims or non-white people arriving in the USA.
FTA: "I focused specifically on technical documentation and diagnosis of issues with Model S components. I also worked on the product development of internal widgets"

So, he didn't work on things like battery firmware or self-driving. That makes it _slightly_ more believable, but I think the probability is higher that this was either a prank, or they checked his work behind his back.
Agreed, I'm surprised to see something of the sort on NY times. It's pure sensationalism.
This is exciting. It's using Cython [1]

To the author:

What do you feel about binding python to rust? Did you use any tutorials?

[1] https://github.com/tbodt/htmlpyever/blob/880da57/setup.py#L5
You can't argue that liberal society produces a more stable, prosperous society because your government is bombing any attempt at finding if this is actually true.
> You also appear to be studiously avoiding acknowledging my point.

I'm actually trying to get you to clearly articulate your point by avoiding false descriptions; descriptively, there is an issue with private actor impacts on pragmatic free speech, but it's not equivalent to free speech rights not be existing in private physical spaces; it's both bigger (private discrimination can have an impact on expression anywhere, and isn't restricted to speech occurring in private spaces) and smaller (in that free speech rights are, in fact, in full legal effect everywhere, including private spaces) than that.

But I don't know if the point obscured by your inaccurate description is merely to point to that general fact or to make some deeper point based on it.
For some reason, with the words ironic and literally I feel the need to be pedantic, yes. They are such awesome useful words, that are being changed into something useless.
You know, I think this is the first article I've seen on working for Tesla (or SpaceX, for that matter) that has been wholly positive. Most of the time its more "They work you like hell and I have no life outside of work, but damn is this going to look good on my resume when I move on in a year"
We'll have the book in wider distribution after Defcon. If we don't sell out of them.
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Yes, it is. What other job asks you to do homework outside of programming?
Oh for sure. You're definitely right about that.

It's just short-sighted. Various metrics might go up from month to month or year over year, but they'll drive away their cuatomers over a decade.
They also look like Samsung. And Sony. And LG.
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I also feel like Kappa is related to the Pepe / supremacist folks.
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If you exchange now, you risk the price could get better over six months and you missed out.

An FX future has the same currency risk profile as exchanging now. What is different is you trade on margin, and you have interest rate risk in a different currency.

People who actually want to fix an FX rate in the future would use a 'forward', simply a contract to exchange at a later date. Again no change in FX risk.

The true hedge is an FX option, where you can lock in a price (for a fee) yet still back out if you want to.
> What kind of t-shirt would you have a positive response to?

Wet.

Note that this thread ends in a predictable fashion:
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Wage regulation is capitalist? Sounds pretty central-planning to me.
It comes from gaming circles, more specifically Twitch.
Kafka is a great piece of software, but running and managing it can be quite tedious. If you can run your workloads in a public cloud my recommendation would be to go with a fully-managed Kafka solution, there are several such services available (such as ours, link in my profile) which make using Kafka in any cloud as easy as using Kinesis in AWS.
In my view, people have a strong tendency to question conglomerates, as they do with most large aggregations of wealth and power. On your list, I find many names that have been criticised for their acquisition strategies (and general corporate behavior).

I meant to stress the familiarity that regular people have with small businesses in comparison to large megacorps.
That's pretty asinine too. You're not allowed to advocate a different life than the one you're leading? It's like the people saying you can't promote a greener environment if you still own a car. It's just another way of shutting them up by creating ridiculous moral standards and acting like you've 'caught them' at an inconsistency. Life is full of inconsistencies.

It's also too simple to equate advocating wealth redistribution with needing to give away your money. Giving away your fortune is probably not the best angle for wealth redistribution. Certain rules of fairness for the wealth redistribution may be needed. For example, it may be useful to fight for rules that get all relatively rich people to join in (aka taxes), which will create a much more powerful push for equality.
I don't know who thinks that humans value nonviolence but they clearly don't read the news.

Species act to adapt to their environment and provide for their needs. Nature necessitates violence for adaptation and survival. In species with no natural predators, an abundance of natural resources, and no problems with genetic propagation, violence might not be necessary for survival. But in many species, even ones with no natural predators (or very little risk of predation), they may commit violence upon themselves, usually to enforce a social order, or eventually pass on their own genetic material. Or they may commit violence for fun, I believe as a sort of practice for real-life predation.

And violence isn't negative. You're ascribing with morality (a human construct) or are diminishing (it's actually constructive) a natural and productive act that supports virtually all life on the planet. To escape it we would need to escape nature itself.
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Immix is a copying collector. It's late and I may be misreading, but glancing at the code I don't see any precise object layout info for the heap in D's GC. That is, D seems conservative for both stack and heap. How can you make Immix work with this kind of conservative GC?
Apple still does not integrate a TPM into their laptops.

And it doesn't matter, even if they did, you could modify the firmware on flash to bypass the checks.

There is nothing stopping someone with physical access from removing the firmware password via SPI flash.

It is a fundamental flaw of x86, IMHO, that there is no Boot ROM (BROM) which can perform signature/integrity checks on the UEFI firmware. ARM has this, x86 does not.
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This guy and his friends, obviously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QiQKALBymE

Seems like a mix of investors, reporters, and CEOs.
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I think my point is pretty clear - your comments regarding the state of Android security are very lacking. I suggest you watch this video by Adrian Ludwig at Next 2017 for an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6ziX5pqt8

>Second, 200k USD for a vulnerability of such caliber is peanuts.

I think that's the going rate offered by companies that buy exploits like Zerodium. Do you know of a company offering a better price?

>Third, you must have missed this: http://blog.trendmicro.com/results-mobile-pwn2own-2016/

First, the hack was impressive because of all of the exploits they had to chain. Perhaps this gives you an understanding of just how difficult it really is and why I called your comments regarding Android security silly. Secondly, I don't believe their hack was possible via RCE and needed physical access to the device. Third, you neglected to mention that not only was the iPhone hacked, but it was done so twice. Additionally, the 2 iPhone hacks earned more money than the Nexus 6P hack. Did you also want to comment on the state of iOS security?
I got my start remote working with X-Team (https://x-team.com) and their sister company X-Five (then called XHTMLized) (https://www.xfive.co)

I don't know if they have any openings currently but definitely worth checking them out in my opinion.
Well with this[0] implementation[1] my laptop can render 3840x2400 pixels at 60fps, so ignoring the larger resolution, so how about 1/60th of a second?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588789

[1] Is using a GPU cheating? Are we comparing computer performance or CPU performance? The Alto didn't even have a CPU as we know it today...
Group buys should save on shipping. We should have stock at Amazon after Defcon, unless we sell out of them.
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This is a really amazing and clever idea on Amazon's part: Taking a system or technology that you've already built and are maintaining, and make it accessible to others as a platform. Then continue using that platform as if you were a/the best customer.

They did it with AWS, they've done it with their retail business, and now they're probably going to do it with AmazonFresh/WholeFoods. It makes a lot of sense, and it offers them a lot more flexibility to use the platforms they build in other ways too.
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It's not the first disagreement on this site I've seen boil down to people's varying levels of belief of how much influence people have over their environment and vice versa. (I think reality is somewhere in between).

I haven't found the right word for it, but it seems to be loosely related to a personality attribute:

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

Which if true, would mean nobody's changing their mind. It would be like an argument between a staunch introvert and extravert arguing over whether or not socializing is exhilarating or draining.
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> if women did understand men perfectly you would think they would have absolutely no problem getting exactly what they want from men

While I agree with the gist of your comment, this is not true. I perfectly understand how roulette works - yet it doesn't help me win. (Unless you're using a very literal meaning of the word "perfectly", like in some laplacian determinism sense.) In fact, we can get all sorts of interesting (probabilistic) understanding about the world, which doesn't provide any information to help us decide.
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Not necessarily as on at least two times in the past, it didn't work properly without frigging around with timings.
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It seems a easy way to avoid GC in Go is statically allocate everything. only use Global references, etc.
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Lykke comes to my mind with their LKK1Y coin:

https://www.lykke.com/city/blog/what_is_lykke_forward

https://www.lykke.com/

The original, LKK coin, is essentially a representation of the company's shares. LKK1Y is a derivative which you can stake and receive the same amount of LKK in 1 year time.

Do note that as of now, Lykke wallet is unavailable in the US as they are still working out the regulations.
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The conglomerate discount is real - about 10% on average in developed countries. This applies to public companies, so is a revealed preference of institutional and retail investors, not VCs and angels.
> something where voice service is still passable but data service basically cannot function due to packet loss, etc.

That pretty much describes 99% of indoor mobile coverage out there. The only exception being buildings that have ponied up for a femtocell.
Never used stripe before, I haven't even heard much about them before, but their site(and this blog post) is convincing so I was thinking I will try it, but then I bumped into this thread: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/payments-shipping-fulfilment...

Well, this isn't so convincing.
Seeing how China is throwing their weight around and very much testing the limits of international law in the region, it seems rather more prescient than idiotic of Britain to insist on a formal solution, rather than just letting the lease expire and leave a major city hang around in perpetual legal uncertainty.
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Maybe this is a naive question but why doesn't the local police care about solving this issue? It would seem easy to setup a few honeypot bikes and arrest the people that steal them. Do it for a few weeks a year and it would seem like the crime rate for bikes would quickly plummet.

It's sad to me that people take this for granted. I've lived in place that don't and they are wonderful to expect that petty theft is rare. In many countries though it's so common that there's generations of people that seem to just think "that's the way the world is". It's not, it's the way we let it be.

This is similar in SF. I don't know how quickly a bike will be stolen there but cars are broken into on such a regular basis that often you can walk down a street and see broken glass every 3rd or 4th parking space from someone breaking into all the cars on that section of the street. Again it seems super solvable with a few honeypot cars and seems like it would do much to make people's lives better (have had my cars broken into 7 times in California)
Yeah even before seeing that list (which was much longer than I had expected), I could name Berkshire, the mega-food groups, the mega-media groups, Koch Industries, and General Electric as conglomerates.
> Sure, don't use shady exchanges.

Neither TradeHill nor Mt. Gox were considered shady exchanges, at any point when they were used. But you do realize that the standards for this are somewhat low.

E.g. both the owner of bloomberg.com and the owner of businessinsider.com are convicted of securities fraud (in fact businessinsider.com was extremely likely started exactly because Henry Blodget was convicted of fraud). At the time, the owner of Tradehill was not convicted of fraud, and while he is now, and yet he's still running a bitcoin exchange.

However, the people defrauded by both of these individuals in "fiat-world" saw 80%+ (Blodget) or 100% (Bloomberg) of their money back. As far as I know, nobody saw their Tradehill money back.

> It would be foolish to suggest that there will never be any fraud in the blockchain world.

Are you seriously naive or misinformed enough to believe this ? Fraud, law breaking and tax evasion are the main, almost the only, reason bitcoin is being used at all. You have heard of Silk Road, right ?

I've seen numbers suggesting that Silk Road was responsible for 70%+ of all bitcoin transaction at one time, and this isn't even counting the many other kinds of fraud and crime, like data ransoms, actual ransoms, money laundering (esp. out of China, in fact most miners are money laundering operations according to many sources)
China seems to be a counter example to that (and the largest example in the history of mankind, with 600 million people having a prosperous life thanks to, arguably, the government making decisions on their behalf, not to mention it has been the most stable civilization on Earth despite a few periods of instability), though on the whole, you might be right. I just wouldn't claim that with nearly as much confidence as you do.
>The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) maintains information on approximately 32 million vehicles/vessels registration (VR), 27 million driver licenses (DL) and/or identification (ID) cards, and over 437,000 occupational licensing (OL) records.

>Confidential information is not considered public record. This includes certain DMV personnel matters, physical/mental information, residence address, social security number (SSN), incomplete findings from research, results of ongoing investigations, operation plans, and electronic data security controls.

DOB is listed on ID and not considered confidential information.
That was amazing! Especially the machinery of the second part where the DNA strand is replicated backwards!
Two things:

1 - direct response advertisers (obviously not all of them, but a big fraction) care deeply about purchases / test drives / whatever. Interactions that don't lead to purchases don't make money for a publisher. fb pretty thoroughly poisoned the well for advertisers paying for some sort of fleeting social interaction, though Snap is trying.

2 - Everyone here complaining about medium and still reading it... it's like that Woody Allen joke --

Woman one: "The food here is terrible."

Woman two: "I know, and such small portions!"