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Same. For anyone wondering what we're talking about, the USGS offers an earthquake notification system that you can sign up for via email.

Global alerts are pretty infrequent, so it doesn't hurt to sign up for this if it's something you have a passing interest in.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/
So invest in education ;)
Create an unsustainable system then seek philanthropy to fix the problem? Why not simply fix the system?
I don't think I'm ever going back there. There's gotta be a better forum to discuss bitcoin.
> The conventional wisdom was for stocks, which are much higher volume, liquidity, etc, and aren't a newfangled math experiment.

If anything that means the conventional wisdom should apply even more, no? It seems more likely that Ethereum would go all the way to zero than whichever company it was that traded at $.01 during the flash crash (Proctor & Gamble?)
I generally type with just 2 fingers on each hand and my touch typing skills are pretty terrible. I've been programming professionally for about 6 years and overall I would consider myself a fast developer. In my experience, you spent most of your time thinking, not typing (hence why lines of code is a bad measure of productivity) so typing speed != development speed.
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Walmart sells cheap stuff, it doesn't sell stuff cheaply. There is a very important distinction.

It works hard to lower supplier and employee costs not to benefit consumers but to prop up their own margins.
why doesn't he create a big city with communal living and top rate security for refugees?
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Ask HN: You are named CEO of Uber, what do you do in “180 days of change”?
Of course the proper job of a CEO is to put a team in place to do all these things. However, the point of the question is if it were your company and things to control, how would you keep the train on the tracks?

Some examples:

- What would you do to motivate 14k employees who have been turned upside down?

- How do you slow the burn without mortgaging the future of the company?

- How do you balance driver and rider demands?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-dismisses-white-h...

The White House denies it, so who knows. Either way, there are many example's of him acting like a child. The inauguration debate for example.
for automated testing in a non windowed env, this can be used.
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Replying to someone doesn't necessarily mean disagreeing with them.
>Those who don't want to learn should be given enough for basic subsistence.

Everyone should be be given that through UBI (universal basic income).
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Sure, most experienced people use limit orders. However, an event like this will likely not happen again for a few years, since people are adjusting their behavior now.
you can, and it worked, prior to availability of headless options(Phantom sucks). However xvfb is yet another dependency that could cause breakage.
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> This analysis doesn't give the speaker any room to challenge the listener's expectations about what is possible.

Sure, it does; first, “context” includes everything other than the words used, including the manner of the speakers presentation, and, second, the rest of the English language is still available. One can, for instance, explicitly state, “not figuratively”. It's true that—as is true in general with figurative uses—the more common they become in situations where speaker and listener may nit view context the same way, the more they require verbose circumlocution to disambiguate literal from figurative use. (The use of “literally” in it's literal sense is almost entirely such a circumlocution made necessary by such issues with figurative uses of other words and phrases, for instance.) This affects figurative use of “literally” the same as any other figurative use of language.
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Repairs yes, returns not so much.

Every independent watchmaker has to deal with repairs, but once you pass six figures or so for a single timepiece you don't see them outright returned much anymore (statistically speaking).

Even at high five figures you don't see them returned very often, but you do see a valley of returns at the low five figure mark ($10-$30k), or at least a lot of reselling. This is the ceiling at which a watch is "affordable" for people who aren't wealthy if they are well-paid, have few to no obligations and are fiscally irresponsible, which often results in buyer's remorse. This is one of the reasons why it's comparatively easy to find a mint or near-mint preowned watch at a significant discount less than two years out from original production year for a lot of "entry level" timepieces from the most high end brands (Lange, Vacheron, Patek, etc). You won't find similar discounts at the mid, high or ultra-high tiers within these brands, because they circulate less.

Moreover, buyers who are more likely to regret their purchase typically buy more recognizable brands. Buying from an independent takes a higher commitment to the art of haute horlogerie because virtually no one is going to recognize, even among people who recognize more than just Rolex. The market for reselling an independent-made timepiece is also lower (though in the case of someone like Smith or Dufour, this is probably not a concern).

Source: Watch hobbyist, I own an A. Lange & Söhne and Nomos Glashütte, frequent watch forums and read watch blogs.
That is great, I guess.

Let's regulate the meat industry 2 ways. One through the UDSA. One through customer due diligence and market forces.

I am buying USDA meat for my family. Are you buying the free market "we promise it's really beef" meat?
You and I have clearly had vastly different rideshare experiences.

I wouldn't describe any of the drivers I've had as being assholes. Every single one of them was at least friendly. Most were helpful, some extremely so. Rather than begging for a tip, I was happy to give them a little bit extra. They appreciate it and I feel good about it. It's win-win.
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That's just a general expression. It's certainly older than 2006 and its context is not related to the IT at all, e.g. see https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70640/meaning-of...
On a related note, its really surprising how industrialised Austria is- their Alpine valleys are full of heavy engineering.
mainstream spoils everything.

btw, what about Bezos paying taxes instead of "optimizing" ?
So the current "value" is around $300, but something fishy is going on, and the exchange is trading at $.10?

This does not build confidence.
>• Stupid Question 3: Double the cube.

(X^3) * 2 -- Done.

>• Stupid Question 4: Square the Circle.

r is known. X is not.
pi * r^2 = X^2
sqrt(pi * r^2) = X , for positive X

oh, geometrically? No. Algebraically works cleaner, and for any arbitrary positive solutions for r.

>Its central dogma is thou should prove everything rigorously.

That's not a dogma. Its a proof because anyone, no matter whom, no matter when, or where in the universe, can duplicate these results and show they are logically true. Or they can show the results are logically false, no matter the inputs given.

It's not "dogma", as some high edict by a Pope or something. A rank amateur could further the field by proving a new theorem - because the person doesn't matter. The soundness of logic does.
Has anyone looked at grabbing the jnr-ffi libs from jruby for #1? This is an example of what the Java bits end up looking like: https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi-examples/blob/master/getpid/s...

Can't imagine that would be too hard to wrap.
And one can customize the alerts based on region and magnitude, and you can even set nighttime sleep modes to ignore events under a certain magnitude! It's a well put-together service from my perspective.
> Overall this is a great post! I just think that there is even more potential for perf with JITs than what the post implies.

Specially if the JIT can reuse PGO from previous execution runs like MGO on .NET 4.5+ or Android 7.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2012/03/20/improving...

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/jit-compiler
Runtime type checking is useless. If a given function can't accept the data I plan to send into it, I want the compiler to tell me immediately.
Google "VW shipping puck" and you'll see this actually happens in the real world all the time, too!
A bigger battery results in greater co2 emissions. Over 17 tons in the case of a model s. 8.2 year worth. A Tesla battery has an 8 year shelf life based on Tesla's warranty coverage. Nice spin though.

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/battery-technology-gua...
> Why is this a meaningful distinction? Who cares if it's server or client side in this discussion?

It doesn't really matter, except that the browser's dominance as client-side platform is the cause of JavaScript's current ascendancy, rather than programming language design decisions of any sort. This is a refutation of the claim that you made saying "the last 5 years of software development and the remarkable growth of Javascript" make a compelling case that van Rossum is wrong about multiline anonymous functions in Python. Classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

If you're going to stick by the argument that somehow the support of anonymous functions is responsible for JavaScript's recent successes with respect to Python in terms of adoption and pace of development, then you'll have to explain why Lisp didn't take the world by storm when they were introduced nearly sixty years ago.

Or, of course, admit that whether or not a particular programming language conforms to your personal preferences has relatively little bearing on the success of that programming language in the world at large.
The downside is that when you put in a limit buy the exchange puts your money into escrow until the order is cancelled or filled. Since a crash like that is unlikely to happen (first time on that exchange I believe) it just means you have money tied up when it could be put to better use
Domain packs are not for those who are trying to master a language, but those who are starting up and merely need to pick up some day-to-day vocabulary quickly.
Yes it's sometimes called a stink bid.

Lots of contexts where this kind of bidding is a good idea. E.g. after a really bad year you can expect big price swings around tax loss selling season (nov-dec), where people take out their frustration on their worst performers. Doesn't always work but if you've already identified a couple of trainwreck stocks that you think deserve a second chance, getting a stink bid filled for one or more of those stocks can make a very big difference later on.

Of course, the Ethereum flash crash is on a different level :-)
So basically treat even invariants as possibly varying.
Keep focus on self-driving through the next funding cycle (for the hype) then drop it like a hot potato. It is way too long term for Uber to be burning money on it, they have immediate short-term problems.

I'd probably try to rebrand as the new, legal Uber and start spending money on lobbying local politicians. The "taxi-app" market has almost no switching costs and so Uber has almost no pricing power. They'll need to fix this to ever run a profit. Effectively Uber exists because it broke the laws that created barriers to entry. If it wants to continue to exist it needs to erect new barriers that protect it and keep out competition.
Why not use a proper Common Lisp instead, then?
"Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station. Or lease it from McDonalds at high rates"

Do you or do you not understand that this statement is false, regardless of the status of Uber drivers?
See this is why you have to be very careful when you make any statement about Trump.
How can a visa become an engineer, make mistakes and write about them?
It was overall a pretty terrible read. Likely because he's not allowed to share full details of what exactly happened.

Running a light fuel load in quali was a well-known strategy, and it's one they would have modeled in simulations. Likewise, avoiding first-lap (and particularly first-corner) collisions by qualifying as high up as possible is similarly a well-known strategy. Finally, they obviously know the money they get from being on pole.

The article doesn't bother explaining why the real-world outcome was different from what was modeled, so it's hard to gain any insight from it.
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This argument is false on its face. There's overwhelming evidence in the Crowdstrike releases prior to the election[1]. And there's far more from them and at least half a dozen respected infosec firms. Literally any competent infosec practitioner who has looked at the evidence understands that Russian hacking activity was massively elevated in the run up to the election and explicitly targeted candidates and electoral functions.

So, what are your motivations in disputing well established facts? Are you just choosing to be intentionally contrarian and happen to have stumbled into on a subject you know nothing about? Or do you have some stake in willfully misinforming people on this subject?

[1] https://www.crowdstrike.com/resources/crowdcasts/bear-huntin...
What do you expect from it?
Monopolise.
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I've wrapped C and C++ code via the JNI and called it from Clojure. There are a good number of projects wrapping C code in Clojure. It's a little awkward (Clojure -> Java -> JNI -> C), but works well enough.

We get around the startup time by keeping our work either in the REPL, or just having large enough tasks that the loading is dwarfed by the time it takes to get started. Webdev might be a little crappy if you're used to the turn-around cycle of either node or PHP.
That's incredible, I remember when it was impossible to get ASIC miners from ButterflyLabs and we were all up in arms because of their inappropriate behavior. That was a niche vendor producing items that had basically no other uses.

GPU makers didn't sign up to build machines that print money. But it turns out when you do make machines that can print money, people tend to buy them at a rate faster than you can make them! Right away, whether or not you did it on purpose.

(I did get my ASIC Jalapeño miners from BFL before they were busted up, I did order more when they came around and offered to let everyone order more, and I still did manage to earn a pittance over and above my initial investment on both batches, regardless of the absolutely ridiculous production and shipping delays.)
I've done the countdown timer thing before, but not in a sleazy way like Viagogo. I've done limited-time sales where the item starts at a percentage off and gradually increases to full price. It seems to work well.
I've personally handled hundreds of requests per second using Django behind Nginx on a m3.medium EC2 instance. The trick to scaling like this is to take full advantage of caching, and the cores available to you. With Django (and Node), this means spinning up multiple instances on a single server (one per available core).

With even moderate caching (say, 1m), you can saturate your VM's bandwidth before running out of CPU or memory.

Ultimately, you will always have a bottleneck. All you can do is identify the bottleneck (via load testing) and address it. If it's network (and you're in Amazon), you have to scale vertically until they remove that limit, or horizontally if you're already on unrestricted instances. If it's the CPU, you'll need to be more aggressive at caching completed computations, or work in a language with less overhead. If it's memory, start evaluating the tradeoffs between CPU and memory. If it's your DB, start investigating why it's slow (it's probably a poor index or configuration; DBs on decent hardware can handle millions of requests per second before degrading).

I don't have any book recommendations; I just recommend creating something and find its limits with a simple load test tool. Then figure out your bottleneck and fix that. Rinse and repeat, and learn.
wow straight from the uber marketing dept...
It's in the supercomputing center. How aboug I modify it where a filterimg step is run deleting everything that doesn't match on desired image festures?
There are no ASICS for ethereum and probably you will not benefit from them a lot more than from GPU becasue they use scrypt with 2GB+ tables instead of sha256 (like in bitcoin).
If we cant determine when/if we will get on parity with humans in AI capability... we should be focused on AI as a tool that will be used by those with the know-how-resources against those who do not have ability/access;

Rich vs poor:

* HFT will never be a common man's tool

* Government surveillance

* Corporate surveillance

* Behaviorally informed/adjusted pricing etc...

Basically ML and AI will be used, in large part, by those who can to exploit those who cannot (or at least those who wont) defend themselves.

There will be no opting out.

So, with that said, if we go from the bottom up - and there is no opting out, then what is the best that one can hope for? I'd say complete ownership and control of one's own "meta-cloud" -- Any data that is a resultant trail of any action I take as an individual should be owned by me, and I should be able to see it all, and delete or block it.

Or, in the extreme case, shouldn't I be able to require that any information presented to me (such as an ad or a price) be required to inform me as to how that information was formulated:

"You are seeing this price because the following factors were analysed..."

The real question is, in the future, is there even such a concept as "off grid"
Well, let me give you an example that I have seen recently.
There was this function that suppose to convert numeric value to string.
So numeric type was templatized. Then with combination of enable_if and static_asserts there were checks to avoid doubles/floats negative numbers. So whats there left besides unsigned integers?
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Exactly. If you haven't made a profit you don't control shit, you get exactly as much control as the moneypurses allow you have and NO more.
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That's a very selective quotation.

"You" in the original comment was very obviously a fry cook: "Uber drivers are entrepreneurs like the fry-station cook at mcdonalds is a small business owner. Except McDonalds can't make you pay for your own fry station."
I blame TechCrunch. They fucking beat that term to death like a wounded horse.
There is a material difference between syntactic abstraction and functional abstraction. It's analogous to the difference between someone learning to program a computer and someone learning to use a computer. The second is far easier to do and requires far less intellectual overhead.

By the same token, if someone implements TensorFlow in a different language, there is little room for complaint assuming the same functional abstraction (and minimization of intellectual overhead) is present in that language's implementation.
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And they could reverse the trades and null them out on both sides. Just because the order gets filled doesn't means it'll complete. Until you get the asset, sell it, and get your cash out of there, you're still at risk.
Yeah, I was thinking about bow wake as it's probably very hard to hide that (as opposed to silencing the sound).

Thanks for your explanation, it makes ton of sense!
GP probably means stop -> market orders. When the stop price is reached, the order converts to market.

Various brokers and exchanges offer more types of stop orders, such as stop -> limit, where you set a limit price, and your order becomes a limit order after the stop price is reached.

Of course crypto exchanges take forever to implement new order types, and I'm not sure any of them have stop -> limit.

Also, stop orders don't work in general in a slipping market because liquidity vanishes from the book.
My time isn't. Sometimes the most cost effective option isn't the one with the lowest price tag.
Yeah, at some point it doesn't matter what language if the game is just game logic on a standard input and output layer that are already fast. Even high end engines like CryEngine often include a scripting layer in some higher level language like Lua that probably has GC, because it's nice to have for game logic that doesn't have the same constraints as other parts of the game. (http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC4/Lua+Scripting)

As I mentioned in another comment a lot of fun games have been made in all sorts of languages. That doesn't really make any of them suitable for games though, and you'll still find far fewer examples of game engines in GC languages.
To be extremely rigorous one would have to write formal proofs, that includes all steps. This is a type of proof that could be verified by a computer and may be tedious and very hard for a human to understand. Mathematicians tend to prove things informally that is easy for others to read and understand. It's almost akin to writing programs in machine code vs writing programs in a high level programming language.
Yeah...my takeaway from this article is that they shouldn't be using AWS Lambda. If you wanted to go through all of caching and load balancing responsibly you could serve their load for <$100/month.
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Without the axiom of choice you get similarly bizarre results. For instance wothout choice there exists a surjection from the reals to a set of greater cardinality.
There's also DASH, the washing powder.
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The reason legislation like this isn't helping our country at the moment is because of globalization. Labor laws may help the workers, but it's a net negative if those laws just lead to the outsourcing of jobs. We need to choose between globalization for maximal gains for the rich, or protectionism for quality of life for our workers. At the moment, a middle ground doesn't seem possible.
I think they used "superstitious barbarians" because that bulletproof magic is obviously false belief (people still get shot and die) and the results are very quantifiable (life and death situations).

Using our own false beliefs would distract from the main research. First, researchers would have to prove this is actually false belief, then sort out the more subtle effects.
If you're liquidating the business, as the OP describes, I doubt that's your biggest concern.
> maybe 1 year of time

One year during which your dev. team cannot work on other projects and without being certain that the end product will arrive on time and be any good.
Lisp is not for the enlightened only! Anyone that ever used a scientific calculator can hack around.

In fact Lisp can be much simpler than Python, it is just like using a RPN calculator if you don't want to dare into macros and other advanced stuff.
These are only as “uncensorable” as any other IPFS object, right?

Which is to say, not very. IPFS isn't even encrypted right now.