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> Your reasoning seems to ignore the evidence in this article; there does seem to be a business model of fraud

What evidence? Specifically, where do you see any evidence?

The article is filled with emotional appeals, doesn't quantify its "calculations", conflates queue size with a lack of liquidity, professes obvious and heavy-handed hero worship for Brad Katsuyama and IEX, and (to top it all off), claims that high frequency trading is front running.

Frankly, I'm shocked it was even published, even as far as op eds go. The article perpetuates the same tired FUD about high frequency trading that IEX continues to push out, and in doing so preempts reasonable discussion about the real negative externalities caused by HFT. The author either doesn't understand, or willfully misconstrues the way in which HFT operates.
There are some good economic arguments to be made in favor of frequent batch auctions. Check out the following presentation by Eric Budish from the University of Chicago ( https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/eric-budish-2015-11-19 ).
"If the worry is that immigrants will outvote the locals and impose an uncongenial government on them, one solution would be not to let immigrants vote"

1. Restrict civil rights of immigrants
2. ??????
3. Profit!

Hint: ?????? = forced labor
Never reached a case where shift + del wasn't fast enough, interesting
Sorry, I have programmed in Java since 1995 and am now using Go for some years. There are huge differences, so I wonder how you could call those languages somewhat close. Some of the differences, which make me favor Go over Java are:

- functions: Java does not have functions, only methods

- closures: Not sure of the latest state, but until very recently, Java had no closures. Closures are a huge and important element of programming.

- single file executables: make your program easy to deploy, without shipping a JVM, setting up a classpath etc.

- value types: have control to which structures you want to refer by pointer and which should be treated as a value

- goroutines+channels: a far better approach to parallel programming, a goroutine is much more light-weight than a Java thread

- no generics the Java style: eventually Go needs generics, but not in the way Java implemented them.

- no frameworks: possibly not a strict language related issue, but Java grew monstrous frameworks, the Go community has been stay away from them so far.
It's stopped me from using it for personal use.

From a practical standpoint, it makes it more difficult for me to trust that it will be maintained in the long-term, or that I can extend its functionality if I see a need.

Ideologically, I'm somewhat uncomfortable using duplicacy when fully-free alternatives exist. I'm not a free software purist by any definition (I use steam. I have a Netflix subscription. My android has google apps on it.), but this is an area where compelling free software solutions do exist.

The license also keeps it from being packaged in most Linux distributions, which makes it a nuisance.
Do all 10,000 attempts go through all the testing? Or are many weeded out before $1 billion has been spent?
Good PHP code tends to look like well structured Java code, but with a rash of $ characters in it. I have to wonder why you don't just write Java and be able to leverage what the JVM ecosystem provides.
Yev from Backblaze here -> for us it depends, and I imagine the type of story would dictate it. For example, our Hard Drive Stats stories don't really belong in Inc. for example, (they'd be more "at home" in places like ZDNet, Ars Technica, etc...) but something like this we might have pitched to Inc. Fortune, or something similar had we decided to pitch it.
Medical grade baking soda, yes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/baking-soda-shortage...

You can't just take a box from the baking supplies shelf in Walmart.
Don't shoot the messenger
Millions of Americans are homeless or leave in crapy trailers and ghettos, even more eat with food stamps, and even more can't afford health care.

Heck, the U.S. "Has The Worst Rate Of Maternal Deaths In The Developed World"...

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/528098789/u-s-has-the-worst-ra...
I was traveling in Illinois many years ago with some locals and we passed a county were supposedly prohibition is still in effect. So not sure about US being ahead of Canada there. I'm not a big fan of alcohol but it's now sold in supermarkets in BC and there's a million micro-breweries so I don't think we're that much behind in this questionable industry. People here (and in the US) seem incapable of drinking responsibly and that impacts others so not sure why we should worry about providing them with easy/cheap booze.

In Vancouver I'd point to the homeless issue is the biggest problem. After the weather ;)

All in all I think Canada strikes a good balance. Possibly one of the best in the world. If the weather was better we'd be ahead of the US in all parameters ...
>your acceptable error margin is between 10-25%

10-25 percent of....what?
HN is not a good place to post unsourced conspiracy theories.
It's not just a question about style. ?int can be enforced at compile-time while the null and type check would be caught at runtime.
NASA is working on a similar (but more capable and larger) robot right now, with plans to open-source all the code. I'm curious what the internals of JAXA's robot look like. That thing is pretty small.
The other comments here are correct. The standard model for these appliances is a rental model. Please talk to a GCP seller.
TechCrunch, Recode, Fortune, NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Wired, MIT Tech Review, to name a few. Of these TC is the one you would typically go to for announcing your launch or new funding. The others don't tend to cover launches of brand new startups and have a higher bar but there are other angles you might use to pitch them.
There is a lot of valuable information and,in my opinion, the author's views are well supported by his experience and his research. However, you get the sense he has been paid by the word. I think democratic systems are under threat. I think, as well, that the threats are resulting in lower economic growth and fewer opportunities for evolving generations. This article does not provide an important context as to why this is happening. Society would be better off if everyone knew this stuff. I just wish it was a little more readable.
Bosch took us for a ride in its level 3 autonomous car
Walking Away from CephFS on Azure
This 1000%. I've been with my co-founder for about 10 years, 3 companies and one acquisition. We're actually related but that didn't matter cause we didn't know each other THAT well. Being able to argue and have a beer after is the key here because it shows its not personal and that the other person or you care enough about your idea to defend it.
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This is impressive, mainly because of the level of clarity around the hiring process and your group's transparency around compensation and candidate feedback. Kudos. Most orgs wouldn't even consider something this open.
Er, you realize Twilo logs everything, right? You can log into Twilio and read your own logs.
Aspirin is a bad actor in this regard. It tends to revert back to salicylic acid, which is ok for some specific topical uses, but has potential to be pretty harmful orally. Sniffing an old bottle of aspirin will tell you whether they're still good enough
Do you have a link about the 4.10 change you mentioned?
I don't know if google glasses is comparable to safety goggles / climbing harness or a hazmat suit. I think it's more comparable to my laptop. There are a lot of companies that provides macs to all their employees, because employees think they're more stylish than their windows counterpart.
OK, so gross-not-net, Virtu is making about $2M/day. The value traded on a typical day in US stock markets is north of $100 billion / day.

HFT is rounding error.
15 websites and blogs that a web developer must visit and follow
Great library, particularly for beginners who have done a Java 101 course. But why is it being posted now?
Maybe the problem with Bitcoin as it stands is it's trying to do too many things at once. If you separated the transactional component from the value store you could have two independent but inter-related systems and consumers could elect to use the one that best fits their needs.

Maybe Ethereum will pick up the slack on the transactional side and Bitcoin will be only for "investment".
It is unclear to me why many people are comparing this effort to a job board. It is pretty clearly an ATS and competes with Jobvite and not Indeed.
I have a lot of respect for this kind of reporting from ProPublica. It's a really good public service to report news that isn't actually new.

In this case, part of the news is that the FDA's 1986 Shelf-Life Extension Program ( https://www.fda.gov/EmergencyPreparedness/Counterterrorism/M... ) has been working fine for decades. This is important for people to know and it's worth re-publishing from time to time as a reminder.

They had another great article like this last month, https://www.propublica.org/article/hundreds-of-judges-new-yo... , which basically reported "local courts in New York state had terrible problems according to an in-depth 2006 New York Times report and are still terrible in 2017". Great stuff.

Likewise a lot of the reporting on "civil forfeiture continues to happen and continues to be unfair, here are more examples" provides a valuable civic service.

I know it can be tough in a news organization to re-report something that everyone already knows is true. It can certainly be tempting to pass over truly important stuff in favor of seeking out brand-new news -- a fair amount of science reporting is driven by "what's in the journals this week" -- but this kind of long-term focus on "what's still true that needs your attention" is equally valuable and great work.
It seems disingenuous to pitch it as an improvement over a ring binder of documents. The question is whether it's an improvement over an iPad on a stand beside your work.
Those crazy hippies talking about using VR to unlock spiritual awareness through massively multiplayer virtual acid trips is just a whole lot more fun than the awful, terrible Facebook Spaces demo. I guess I'm just partial to the time when we were all freaks and geeks.
From the old saying, "Great minds think alike." It is a joking way to say that you and another person have the same idea.

By saying "Great minds give themselves rhabdomyolysis," the person is making fun of himself even harder.
Yes the trader can select his arbitrator.
The arbitration system got a conceptual change with the upcoming DAO and will be secured by locked up security deposit of the arbitrator as well as an introduction of a mediator who will cover most cases and who has no key to the 2of3 MS.
See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DXEVEfk4x1qN6QgIcb2PjZwU...

Most arbitration cases are customer care cases and there have been actually no real dispute at all where the traders delivered conflicting statements.
We use PageSigner/TLSNotary (https://tlsnotary.org/) for the case that traders have a real dispute. With that we can get a tamper evident proof if the bank transfer took place.

WE don't use a DHT but a custom P2P network based on a floodfill algorithm. All traffic is routed over Tor and each node is a hidden service.
Fuck you Google. Get off my life.
They were marketing to developers, but they were marketing it as something that would be useful for consumer applications. They've admitted that that was a mistake, at least in the state Glass was in when it was introduced.
I hope not, purescript is a much more sensible option.
Eh, somebody in their spare time figured out Bernie Madoff's scheme in the 90's and wrote them an explanation such that ignorance was no excuse. The SEC regulator marrying Madoff's daughter seems relevant.
Heh. My second project at my first employer out of college (back in 2006) was building a system to detect violations of this rule (Reg NMS, if you're curious). We found that there were trade-throughs happening on a daily basis, it was so common that it appeared to be just how the markets worked.

Tried to sell it to the SEC and they weren't interested.

Then we pivoted to try to sell to traders, so they could prove to clients that they were getting the best execution possible (or occasionally better than the best possible, but that gets washed out of the aggregate stats). They were very interested, until the data showed that most of the ones who don't already have a proprietary version of this were actually doing terribly on their trade executions. Then they weren't interested at all.

I ended up leaving the company - and the financial industry - at that point. My take-away from the whole experience is that the game really is rigged. I remember reading a non-mainstream economics paper in college that modeled the world not in terms of price equilibria or value-add, but assumed that all actors were basically bandits who would try to take whatever they could by force or deceit. It was horribly depressing at the time, but it actually seems like a more accurate model of how the world really works, the remarkable part being that democratic capitalism has managed to channel the impulses of those bandits (while still being utterly crooked) into a system that on a macro-level basically kinda/sorta works.
http://www.windhorst.org/calendar/

This page explains the inconsistencies. Apparently there are several ways to calculate the dates past 1806.
Slightly OT question - if I want a particular phone number, whats the preferred method of doing this? I.e., is there a way to be notified when someone gives up a certain number?
On the plus side, while google may have an advantage for run of the mill jobs - niche sites like stack overflow careers will always have a better ROI for specialized positions.
I had exactly that thought when listening to the NPR interview this morning. Unfortunately, the value was taken for granted (even extrapolated x4000 to estimate total value loss across all hospitals in the US).
I'm sure that's what Google hopes the enterprise vendors think too. GSuite has already successfully traversed from SMBs to enterprise and if Hire is successful it will likely follow a similar path.
>> "crossfit games"

Wow, that is scary. Considering that these are supposed to be their top performers (and in a promoted event no less), that is quite a different level of bad than just having some instructors that may not be up to snuff. It's like they purposefully and actively promote bad form and health-damaging training. So the opposite of 'fit' then.
Convolutional neural network trained on NSFW model generates porn from scratch
Wrong. LSD and fentanyl have polar opposite therapeutic indexes - the therapeutic index is specific to toxicity whereas I'm talking about clinical outcomes in general. There are drugs that have threshold doses below which there is essentially no effect on the patient but aren't toxic until 10-1000x that threshold dose. Fentanyl just happens to have an effective threshold dosage that is dangerously close to its LD50.
I hate switching backup software, and with your current license, you become a single point of failure--will you be supporting this thing in 10 years when I need to back my FireflyBSD 128-bit RiscV machine up to the walmart cloud (or whatever random os/hardware/cloud is common in a decade)?

If this were BSL licensed, the community could fork it if that became an issue:

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2016/08/applying-business-sou...

I'm curious to see whether any BSL software manages to build a third party dev community (inclusion in debian non-free, third party patches and bug reports, etc)

While I have your attention: It'd be great to measure how many bytes the solutions read and write, as well as I/O counts. There are tools for this in Linux, and probably MacOS. Alternatively, network bandwidth would be a good proxy for these measurements.
I had all these, bought on the newsstand, and Wired back to issue 1. At some point I just had to clean house, during a move, and they all went. Mondo 2000 was both inspiring and, even to me back at the time, a little bit laughable, especially the fashion parts. But fun.
The big companies post all of their jobs on their website, but the smaller companies definitely do not. In developing countries it is even worse. In India it is common for jobs to be posted on a website as PDFs, which are scan/images of printed pages.

There is added value. Indeed, and plenty of other job sites, have done things like quick apply which bypasses the horrific process of legacy ATSs like Oracle's Taleo.

People, in the most general sense, should be extremely concerned if Google -- or any specific company -- gains a market hold on job search / recruiting.

If, say Google and Facebook, or Google and LinkedIn had control of 90% of the hiring vertical they could, in effect, take a large chunk of an employee earnings. How? Employers would have to spend a lot of money just for the employee to know some opportunity exists for them. Big, high margin, corporations would be just fine. Small businesses would be disadvantaged.

This is what has happened with the travel aggregators. Two companies dominate (and own all of the other travel search engines you think are independent.) The big hotel chains can negotiate slightly better deals, the small ones pay full price for visibility.

In a more narrow definition we can see this with on demand work start ups. Uber, Postmates, and others have spend massive amounts of money to recruit workers. Of course as start ups they have time constraints and geography constraints. They need to grow really fast so they pay tens of millions of dollars on buying search ads, display ads, and so on. Perhaps they could grow organically but it would be hard.

A good job search / recommendation would just show users the best economic opportunities for them at this moment. Yes, it would be hard to rank and filter out stuff that looks good but is crap (Maybe Uber falls in the crap category?) However, if someone wants to work, certainly they shouldn't be sitting at home idle because a potential employer didn't spend millions of dollars on an ad campaign. (Those "reach" dollars should be going to workers, not platforms.)
Because they wish to leverage PHP's ecosystem and Java requires more boilerplate code and tends to be more verbose.
Pyzmq, relicensing done right
* Learning Finnish.

* Taking pictures.

* Spending time learning about hardware, via ESP8266 chips.

* Auditing software for security problems.

* Reading. Constantly.

* Indoor rock-climbing & general gym-going.
> The health care in Canada is terrible. If I want to see a doctor I have to wait typically 2+ weeks to get an appointment. Go to emergency room you have to wait 8+ hours and receive poor treatment.

Oh, how I enjoy first world problems. I'm feeling like I'll love Canada.
That's not the point. The point is that the industry is vanishingly small compared to Wall Street proper, yet it has an outsize target on its head due to FUD and emotional appeals like the ones presented in the article.

Furthermore, in exchange for "taking" that money from the market, they enhance liquidity, which is directly helpful for price discovery and facilitating trading among both retail and institutional investors.

People are continually moving the goalposts in this thread and others like it. If you're going to talk about Wall Street and fraud, high frequency trading is not the place to start. All of the legitimate arguments against high frequency trading have nothing to do with fraud, they have to do with the dangers of runaway algorithmic trading that coalesces into the same market movements.

But we can't reason about that issue while half the people talking about HFT (almost none of whom actually have experience with trading whatsoever) still think it's front running, or believe it constitutes some sort of fraudulent con over "the little guy."
Hey Greg, uneducated but interested inquirer here: Once you're inside a phone network, phone numbers can be as long as you like, can't they?

Could Twilio not arrange for a new "country code" to be assigned, possibly to an industry working group of some kind, and then make the numbers ~64 digits long? Then there should be more than enough to go around and to discard dirty numbers, and the numbers could always be made larger in the future if needed?
> 1. The glirp couldn't fit on the vell because it was too small.

Situation 1: vell=table, glirp=dish. "It" refers to the vell.

Situation 2: vell=bolt, glirp=nut. "It" refers to the glirp.

Replace "on" with "in", and maybe there's less ambiguity.
Are you aware of what the PHP ecosystem provides? There is some pretty great stuff in PHP land.

2 of my favorites are https://getcomposer.org/ and https://laravel.com/
As long as experience of employees within the org confirm the culture. Otherwise it's just marketing of a secretly abusive work culture.
That's true. I guess the difference is that outrage has a function, and can have a utility, so I don't think it's a good metaphor

CO2 is the best analogy. There needs to be a certain amount for the utility. Too much and too little are detrimental.

Viewing it as just 'pollution' implies that it has no value.

This is an all-or-nothing fallacy. It's the amount produced which is the issue in the analogy. In reality, there are also finer grained quality issues.

To further demonstrate the application of your fallacy, I would agree that there are problems with under-prosecution of certain crimes.

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

However, when the outrage which has reached a fever pitch such that people start calling for abrogation of Innocent Until Proven Guilty based on inherent characteristics, something has gone wrong. Our culture has known, since the times in which the Magna Carta was written, that the protection of the individual from arbitrary imprisonment and prosecution is essential to prevent totalitarian abuses of power.

Outrage is easy to over use, its over-use is readily rewarded and such over-use is clearly everywhere, even despite the fact that it's only the excesses of the "other side" that are easily discerned.
Interesting article, in a difficult topic. Speculating about the future of deep learning. The author deserves recognition for writing about this. In my personal opinion, within the next 10 years, there will be systems exhibiting basic general intelligence behavior. I am currently doing early hobbist research on it, and I see it as feasible. These system will not be very powerful initially. They will exist and work in simpler simulated environments. Eventually we will be able to make these systems powerful enough to handle the real world. Although that will probably not be easy.

I somewhat disagree with the author. I don't think that deep learning systems of the future are going to generate "programs", composed of programming primitives. In my speculative view, the key for general intelligence is not very far from our current knowledge. Deep learning, as currently we have, is a good enough basic tool. There are no magic improvements to the current deep learning algorithms, hidden around the corner. Rather what I think will enable general intelligence, is assembling systems of deep learning networks in the right setup. Some of the structure of these systems will be similar to traditional programs. But the models they generate will not resemble computer programs. They will be more like data graphs.

I expect within 10 years there will be computer agents capable of communicating in simplified, but functional languages. Full human language capability will come after that. And within 20 years I expect artificial general intelligence to exist. At least in a basic form. That is my personal view. I am currently working on this.